The Evaluation of Manufacturing Cell Designs

It is essential in the design process to have a measure of a cell′s goodness which reflects current commercial and operational priorities. Develops a measuring framework with one component which makes the firm′s weighted manufacturing goals explicit, and a second which examines the impact of cell design decisions on these goals. Since the framework is concerned with design decisions, not the design process, it should be generally applicable to different kinds of design process. Although the framework is essentially subjective, this is largely unavoidable. One of its main benefits is to make the assumptions that underlie subjective judgements explicit and communicable.