| Article ID: | iaor1990104 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 489 |
| End Page Number: | 501 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1990 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
| Authors: | Elsayed E.A., Kao T.Y. |
| Keywords: | allocation: resources |
In this paper the authors investigate flow shop production systems with manufacturing cells. They develop a procedure which enables them to determine the optimal number of machines for each operation, the optimal assignments of operations to manufacturing cells, and the optimal number of robots required in each cell such that the total production cost per unit is minimized.