Cell movement and symmetry of the cellular environment.

Developing a cellular manufacturing model considering the alternative routes, tool assignment, and machine reliability

The cell formation (CF) is one of the most important steps in the design of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS), which it includes machines’ grouping in cells and part grouping as separate families, so that the costs are minimized. The various aspects of the problem should be considered in a CF. The machine reliability and the tool assigned to them are the most important problems which have t...

Development of a cell formation heuristic by considering realistic data using principal component analysis and Taguchi’s method

Over the last four decades of research, numerous cell formation algorithms have been developed and tested, still this research remains of interest to this day. Appropriate manufacturing cells formation is the first step in designing a cellular manufacturing system. In cellular manufacturing, consideration to manufacturing flexibility and productionrelated data is vital for cell formation....

Modeling of Environment Influences in Morphogenic Processes of Cellular Bodies: Symmetry Breaking

We investigated the minimal condition for symmetry breaking in morphogenesis of cellular population using cellular automata based on reactiondiffusion dynamics. We started to understand the morphogenic process and provide the mathematical formulations of the fields associated with cellular activity, environmental structure and dynamics, and mutual influence of the environment in cells activity ...

An Efficient Algorithm to Inter and Intra-Cell Layout Problems in Cellular Manufacturing Systems with Stochastic Demands

A multi-objective model for designing a group layout of a dynamic cellular manufacturing system

This paper presents a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming model to design a group layout of a cellular manufacturing system in a dynamic environment, in which the number of cells to be formed is variable. Cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are concurrently made in a dynamic environment by the integrated model, which incorporates with an extensive coverage of important ...