Currently, the manufacturing industry is experiencing a data-driven revolution. There are multiple processes in the manufacturing industry and will eventually generate a large amount of data. Collecting, analyzing and storing a large amount of data are one of key elements of the smart manufacturing industry. To ensure that all processes within the manufacturing industry are functioning smoothly...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...

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...

Today's manufacturing enterprises are facing increasing pressure due to globalization, uncertainties, and strict regulations, among others. To cope with aforesaid challenges, manufacturing enterprises need to enhance their monitoring and control of enterprise processes (i.e., business processes and associated manufacturing processes) within and across different enterprise levels. This results i...

as the conditions in the market and in the world of work and commerce gets more complicated, this requires cor-rection, improvement and also updating marketing attitude among manufacturers and marketers. it is an urgent requirement to choose and determine strategies in order to achieve the objectives. strategy means the comprehensive and main plan in manufacturing unit revealing the way it achi...