Manufacturing cell formation under capacity constraints

Xiaolan Xie

Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, 1993, vol. 9, issue 2, 87-96

Abstract: The cell formation problem is addressed for a manufacturing system containing groups of identical machines. Various part types are produced. The manufacture of a part requires a sequence of operations and each operation can be performed by any machine of a given type. The cell formation problem consists in grouping machines into cells and assigning operations to machines so as to minimize the intercell traffic while satisfying machine capacity constraints and other technical constraints. An important feature of this problem is that machines of the same type may be assigned to different cells. Since the problem is NP‐hard, heuristic solutions are proposed and numerical experiences show that the proposed algorithms lead to near‐optimal solutions.

Date: 1993
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