Complete and fractional cell formation using Kohonen self-organizing map networks in a cellular manufacturing system

Complete and fractional cell formation using Kohonen self-organizing map networks in a cellular manufacturing system

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Article ID: iaor20071684
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 44
Issue: 20
Start Page Number: 4257
End Page Number: 4271
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Journal: International Journal of Production Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: cellular manufacturing, group technology
Abstract:

The primary objective of group technology (GT) is to enhance the productivity in batch manufacturing environment. The GT cell formation and fractional cell formation are done by using Kohonen self-organizing map networks. The effectiveness of the cell formation is measured with number of exceptional elements, bottleneck parts and grouping efficiency and the effectiveness of the fractional cell formation is measured by number of exceptional elements and the number of machines in the reminder cell. This method is applied to the known benchmarked problems found in the literature and it is found to be equal or best when compared to the other algorithms in terms of minimizing the number of the exceptional elements. The relative merits of using this method with respect to other known algorithms/heuristics in terms of computational speed and consistency are presented.

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