... by which productivity and ergonomics could be jointly optimised for improved total system performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Production planning Productivity rates Ergonomics Cellular manufacturing Assembly lines Sweden In 2004, the International Journal...

...Fahad Al‐Mubarak; Basheer M. Khumawala; Cem Canel This paper is aimed at comparing cellular manufacturing with focused cellular manufacturing. We define focused cellular manufacturing as a layout scheme that groups components by end‐items and forms cells of machines to fabricate and assemble end...

.... The introduction of a high variety new model in 1987 had resulted in strain on the machine shop, which was functionally laid out. The firm’s response was to launch a version of WCM which was spearheaded by implementation of cellular manufacturing across the whole factory. The board issued a mission statement...

... in production volume and part mix through an exploratory field study which was undertaken at 15 firms using cellular manufacturing. Finds that cell life cycles did exist, but usually either in anticipation of declining cell performance ‐ rather than in reaction to it ‐ or in anticipation of potential...

... performance measurement system which fails to drive the continuous improvement required in the manufacturing cells. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Automobile components industry Cellular manufacturing Just‐in‐time Kaizen Performance measurement In the field of management research, attention has...

... using eight well‐known problems from the literature. Using three evaluation measures shows that the proposed procedure is effective. Given its simplicity and effectiveness, it may be useful to practitioners and researchers. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Algorithms Cellular manufacturing...

...Girish Shambu; Nallan C. Suresh; C. Carl Pegels The performance of cellular manufacturing (CM) systems has been rigorously investigated during the last two decades. The findings from these studies need to be systematically tabulated, given that they span a wide range of systems and experimental...

...Vijay R. Kannan; Soumen Ghosh Proposes a virtual cellular manufacturing approach to implementing cellular manufacturing systems that combines the set‐up efficiency typically obtained by traditional cellular manufacturing or group technology systems with the flexibility of a job shop. Unlike...

...Chun‐Hung Cheng; Ashok Kumar; Jaideep Motwani Cellular manufacturing is a layout approach to increase productivity in manufacturing. The basic concept of cellular manufacturing is to exploit the similarity between parts and manufacturing processes. Parts similar in design and manufacture...

...John Mills; Ken Platts; Mike Gregory Proposes a framework for considering the factors relevant to the design of manufacturing strategy processes. The framework is built from manufacturing and business strategy literature through a review which positions popular strategies like Cellular...

... of the manufacturing system. It is hoped that the information contained in this work will be of general interest to organizations moving towards similar implementations in that it presents one view of the problems that must be met, and some suggested solutions. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Cellular manufacturing...

...;there is a need to consider other elements of the cellular manufacturing system during the design process. For example, one assignment of machines and parts may outperform a second arrangement under one product control philosophy but not under another. The previous subsections have illustrated the need...

...O. Felix Offodile Presents an assignment model formulation for the machine cell formation problem in cellular manufacturing based on an appropriate definition of dissimilarlity between any pair of machines for the grouping problem. This dissimilarity measure considers the production volume...

...K. Ravi Kumar; George C. Hadjinicola Champion Irrigation Products is a company which has started to employ the principles of Cellular Manufacturing in its operations. Undertakes the task of examining the applicability of Cellular Manufacturing at the company by using several methods for cell...

...Sham Afzulpurkar; Faizul Huq; Mahesh Kurpad Presents an alternative framework to resolve the initial problems encountered in implementing a cellular manufacturing (CM) project. There are not a large number of case studies available detailing the same. The main thrust is on identifying some...

.... This being so, a DCF analysis showed that balanced cells enabled the economic use of guided vehicle systems in multi‐product batch manufacture, by transforming an AGV project from a negative to a positive net present value. An analysis of the wider effects of cellular manufacture enabled the value...

...Biman K. Ghosh Cellular manufacturing is the organisation of manufacturing equipment based on the requirements of the product or component. Transition to cellular manufacturing generally requires reorganisation of existing equipment. It is likely that the existing equipment alone is not suitable...