An Evaluation For Cell Formation Methods
Abstract
Today’s manufacturing industry is facing strong competition in providing high quality and low cost products to ever demanding consumers. Cellular manufacturing is one of the widely used approaches to improve manufacturing productivity to achieve this purpose. The most important step for cellular manufacturing system design is cell formation. In this paper, recent studies in cell formation are mentioned and the hints are given about studies directed to the future. Finally, by considering the problems encountered in applications, it is emphasized that why theoretical studies are insufficient in practice.
Keywords
Cellular Manufacturing,Multi-criteria Cell Design,Soft Computingbased Approaches
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