Article ID: | iaor1996468 |
Country: | Malaysia |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 72 |
End Page Number: | 83 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1993 |
Journal: | Malaysian Journal of Management Science |
Authors: | Viswanathan S. |
Keywords: | production: FMS |
Group technology is a means to achieve higher productivity, greater manufacturing flexibility, and just-in-time inventory. the first step towards implementing group technology in manufacturing is the decomposition of the manufacturing system into cells consisting of various machines and part-families assigned to these cells. This problem has received considerable attention from researchers. This paper provides a review of the various algorithms available in the literature to solve this problem.