A set partitioning based heuristic procedure for incremental cell formation with routing flexibility

A set partitioning based heuristic procedure for incremental cell formation with routing flexibility

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Article ID: iaor20072276
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 44
Issue: 24
Start Page Number: 5343
End Page Number: 5361
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Journal: International Journal of Production Research
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: heuristics
Abstract:

One of the important issues regarding the implementation of cellular manufacturing relates to deciding whether to convert an existing job shop into a cellular manufacturing system comprehensively in a single go, or to convert in stages incrementally wherein the cells are formed one after the other taking the advantage of experiences of implementation. In this paper, a heuristic method based on iterative set partitioning is proposed for incremental cell formation where part operations can be processed on alternative machines. The objective is to minimize cycle time for a given number of workstations. The proposed method is numerically compared with the existing branch and bound technique and another heuristic algorithm based on multistage programming. It is found that the proposed method requires significantly less computational efforts to yield the optimal solution.

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