... can be proved as good financial enablers for such firms. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Flexible manufacturing systems Graph theory International competition, advancement in technology, customer demands, product variety, and dynamic market changes are forcing the global...

... as analysis of the structural information of manufacturing system. Research limitations/implications The structure‐based characterization technique developed has the potential of aiding the ongoing research activities in the field of benchmarking, and business process reengineering. The graph theory‐based...

... as the ones used in algorithms A1 and A2 to determine the adjacency of departments as pointed out in Hassan and Hogg (1987) . Layout techniques Design Facilities Graph theory This paper attempts to assist facility layout designers decide when to develop a block layout using procedures...