Article ID: | iaor20021179 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 673 |
End Page Number: | 681 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2001 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Li Z., Sarker B.R. |
Keywords: | production |
Virtual cellular manufacturing inherits the benefits of traditional cellular manufacturing and maintains the responsiveness to the changing market and routing flexibility of a job shop by integrating machine-grouping, shop layout design and intercellular flow handling. The primary goal of virtual cell formation is to minimize the throughput time of a given job. This paper proposes a method for virtual cell formation by adopting the double-sweep algorithm for the