... reducing lead times. The importance of group technology (GT), or cellular manufacturing (CM), emerged as a result of the demands of the new manufacturing environment and market needs. GT is essentially designed to improve the efficiency of small batch production. This manufacturing structure is best suited...

...Mingyuan Chen Inventory control models deal with production planning in order to minimize inventory and shortage cost, while cellular manufacturing analysis mainly addresses how machines should be grouped and parts be produced. A mathematical programming model is developed using an integrated...

...Elizabeth Maria Klippel; Arlindo Gomes de Alvarenga; Francisco José Negreiros Gomes This work addresses the problem of specification of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS), identifying the machine cells and the respective part families, as well as considering some constraints usually met during...