This paper is in search of designing the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under dynamic and flexible environment. CM is proper for small-to-medium lot production environment that helps the companies to produce variable kind of productions with at least scraps. The most important benefits of CM are decline in material handling, reduction in work-in-process, reduction in set-up time, increme...

Turbulent influencing factors based on market requirements and technological demands lead to a permanent change and improvement in the factory processes, manufacturing systems and layouts. New investigations in manufacturing show that the application of new machining processes and tools require a systematic and stepwise change of the layout and the organisation in order to activate the economic...

Virtual commissioning (VC) of manufacturing systems has been researched for more than 10 years. Its intention is to test manufacturing systems and associated control programs through simulation conducted before the real systems are realised. The expected benefits in reducing debugging and correction efforts expended during real commissioning, however, can only be achieved if sufficiently detail...

Historically, manufacturing engineering education has focused on teaching mathematical models using simplifying assumptions that can mask the realities of complex manufacturing systems. Recent pedagogical approaches to manufacturing education have focused on developing a more holistic view of the manufacturing enterprise. In this paper, we describe the contents and development methodology of a ...

During the analysis and design of manufacturing systems, enterprises are challenged by existing restrictions and the running production. To handle these key issues, different digital tools and approaches have widely been implemented in recent years. By mean of such tools and approaches, a manufacturing system is able to be adapted whenever changes occur. As one of the most important approaches,...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a growing area in virtual reality research. The world environment around us provides a wealth of information that is difficult to duplicate in a computer. This is evidenced by the worlds used in virtual environments. Either these worlds are very simplistic such as the environments created for immersive entertainment and games, or the system that can create a more reali...

Cell formation problem (CFP) is one of the main problems in cellular manufacturing systems. Minimizing exceptional elements and voids is one of the common objectives in the CFP. The purpose of the present study is to propose a new model for cellular manufacturing systems to group parts and machines in dedicated cells using a part-machine incidence matrix to minimize the voids. After identifying...

The application of group technology to production systems has in many firms led to the introduction of cellular manufacturing. This paper studies the changes that are required in the organization of the planning and control systems when applying cellular manufacturing. We review existing frameworks for designing such a planning and control system and propose a new framework that gives attention...

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...