Cellular Manufacturing System Design and Production Requirements: Review and Directions for Future Research.

Deep, Kamal

The paper reviews the design of Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) and production requirements. The conventional methodologies for the cell formation problems consider the single period cell design, ignoring the introduction of new part mix and dynamic production in the planning horizon. However, in today's business world, the companies are under relentless pressure to reduce production costs while meeting the high quality expectations of customers. Contemporary researchers have been addressing the various modeling techniques used for the CMS design ranging from simple to sophisticated ones to deal with confinements on cell size, number of cells, part mix variation in the periodic production and setup time. A comprehensive review has been made in this paper to present the CMS design on distinguished production criteria. Finally, the review concludes by highlighting the cell formation problems and future directions for practitioners.

MANUFACTURING processes; MANUFACTURING cells; PRODUCTION planning; SETUP time; CELL size

IUP Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2022, Vol 15, Issue 3, p50

0974-6536

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