This text aims to report the latest developments and address the central issues in the design and implementation of cellular manufacturing systems. Cellular Manufacturing (CM) is one of the major concepts used in the design of flexible manufacturing systems. CM, also known as group production or family programming, can be described as a manufacturing technique that produces families of parts within a single line or cell of machines. The first part of the book describes various techniques for design and modelling of cellular manufacturing systems. The second part is concerned with performance measure and analysis, followed by a section which presents the applications of artifical intelligence and computer tools in cellular manufacturing systems.
Part 1 Design and modelling techniques: recent advances in mathematical
programming for cell formation, C.-H. Chu; an industrial application of
network-flow models in cellular manufacturing planning, A. Garcia-Diaz and H.
Lee; design quality -the untapped potential of group technology, C.T. Mosier
and F. Mahmoodi; partitioning techniques for cellular manufacturing, S.E.
Moussa and M.S. Kamel; manufacturing cell loading rules and algorithms for
connected cells, G.A. Suer et al; cellular manufacturing design - a holistic
approach, L.L. Massay et al. Part 2 Performance measure and analysis:
measuring cellular manufacturing performance, D.F. Rogers and S.M. Shafer;
performance of manufacturing cells for group technology - a parametric
analysis, A. Agarwal et al; design of a manufacturing cell in consideration
of multiple objective performance measures, T. Park and H. Lee; machine
sharing in cellular manufacturing systems, S. Benjaafar; integration of flow
analysis results with a cross clustering method, M. Barth and R. De Guio.
Part 3 Artificial intelligence and computer tools: adaptive clustering
algorithm for group technology - an application of the fuzzy ART neural
network, S. Kamal; intelligent cost estimation of die castings through
application of group technology, R. Veeramani; production flow analysis using
STORM, S.A. Irani and R. Ramakrishnan; a simulation approach for cellular
manufacturing system design and analysis, A.K. Kamrani et al.
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