This paper analyses the kind of coordination that is necessary in firms that use cellular manufacturing in producing parts. We distinguish two levels of coordination: internal and external. The coordination at these levels is further divided into primary and secondary coordination. In this study we concentrate on coordination requirements between cells with respect to the primary transformation...

This paper addresses a stochastic model in order to design the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under uncertain environment. In real-world cases, any parameters such as demand, processing time, inter arrival time and etc may change over the planning horizon. In this research, it’s assumed that processing time for parts on machines and arrival time for parts to cells are stochastic and desc...

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are attracting attentions not only as a fabrication process of complicated three-dimensional parts but also microstructure controlling processes. In powder bed fusion (PBF)-type AM, crystallographic texture can be controlled by scanning strategies energy beam. To optimize microstructures, computer simulations for predicting microstructures play ver...

Contemporary approaches to the design and construction of manufacturing systems often results in inflexible enterprises that cannot readily be sharply tuned to changing business goals. Manufacturing cells represent a typical domain in which the existence of hard, inflexible links between tasks and resources will result in suboptimal performance and an inability to cope with change. Hence this p...

The cell formation problem is a classic manufacturing optimisation problem associated with the implementation of a cellular manufacturing system. A variety of hierarchical clustering procedures have been proposed for the solution of this problem. Essential for the operation of a clustering procedure is the determination of a form of similarity between the objects that are going to be grouped. I...