| Article ID: | iaor20021650 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 11 |
| End Page Number: | 20 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Journal: | IIE Transactions |
| Authors: | Reasor R.J., Wicks E.M. |
| Keywords: | cellular manufacturing |
The effectiveness of a cellular manufacturing system is sensitive to fluctuations in the demand for products and the product mix. This paper presents a new formulation of the part family/machine cell formation problem that addresses the dynamic nature of the production environment by considering a multi-period forecast of product mix and demand during the formation of part families and machine cells. The goal of the multi-period formulation is to obtain a cellular design that continues to perform well with respect to the design objectives as the part population changes with time.