A virtual cellular manufacturing approach to batch production

A virtual cellular manufacturing approach to batch production

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Article ID: iaor20012724
Country: United States
Volume: 27
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 519
End Page Number: 539
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Journal: Decision Sciences
Authors: ,
Keywords: group technology, cellular manufacturing
Abstract:

In this paper, Virtual Cellular Manufacturing (VCM), an alternative approach to implementing cellular manufacturing, is investigated. VCM combines the setup efficiency typically obtained by Group Technology (GT) cellular manufacturing (CM) systems with the routing flexibility of a job shop. Unlike traditional CM systems in which the shop is physically designed as a series of cells, family-based scheduling criteria are used to form logical cells within a shop using a process layout. The result is the formation of temporary, virtual cells as opposed to the more traditional, permanent physical cells present in GT systems. Virtual cells allow the shop to be more responsive to changes in demand and workload patterns. Production using VCM is compared to production using traditional cellular and job shop approaches. Results indicate that VCM yields significantly better flow time and due date performance over a wide range of common operating conditions, as well as being more robust to demand variability.

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