AbstractGlobalization and rapid technological changes have led to increased customer requirements an intensified competition. To remain cost-efficient, manufacturing companies move from traditional systems towards flexible systems. Reconfigurable proven be effective way of adapting the rapidly changing market conditions. Although, increasing interest in this topic is visible academics industria...

To cope with fast changing customer requirements, industrial demands and to meet stringent specifications of customers Cellular Manufacturing Systems has become an effective tool in hands of manufacturers. Most of the published literature on cell formation earlier considers only the data available in the route sheets and ignored subproblems associated with cell formation. There is a need to dev...

lean manufacturing is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating wastes (non-value added activities) through continuous improvement by conveying the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of production. in a more basic term, more value with less work. since lean manufacturing eliminates many of the problems associated with poor production scheduling and line balancing, lean ma...

Today’s product demand and mix changes requiring reconfiguration of cells in each period of a multi-period planning horizon, This paper proposes a mixed-integer non-linear programming model for reconfigurable CMS design to meet changes in product mix & demand in each period of a multi-period planning horizon. The proposed model, to the best of author’s knowledge, is the most comprehensive model...

Cellular manufacturing systems are used when both production volume and product variety are at medium level. The fluctuations of volume and mix can reduce drastically the performance of classical cellular manufacturing systems. Therefore, several configurations have been proposed in literature as virtual manufacturing cells, fractal cells and remainder cells. This paper investigates the cell lo...