This book provides the latest up-to-date documentation on the scope of research in Group Technology (GT) and Cellular Manufacturing (CM). It is a comprehensive listing of the methodologies, techniques, algorithms and tools used for practical implementation of the concepts of GT and CM.
Series Preface ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv List of Contributors xvii I DESIGN, MODELING AND ANALYSIS The Group Technology Problem with Bottleneck Parts 1(24) David W. He Andrew Kusiak A New Similarity Coefficient Based on Alternative Routes During Machine Failure 25(30) Geonwook Jeon Herman Leep Hamid R. Parsaei Ali K. Kamrani A Combinatorial Optimization Tour in Cell Formation via Hypergraphs 55(46) Levant Kandiller Machine Cell and Part Family Formation in the Presence of Correlation Among Parts: A Mathematical Programming-Based Approach 101(28) Kwang-Jae Kim Jong-Seok Shin Flexibility Consideration in Designing Manufacturing Cells: A Case Study 129(24) Gursel A. Suer Marcos Ortega Group Scheduling for Cellular Manufacturing Systems 153(56) Rasaratnam Logendran A Comparative Study of Machine Cell Formation Algorithms for Non-Binary Matrices 209(22) Chun Zhang Shyanglin Lee H. P. Ben Wang II ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEURAL NETWORKS, GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER TOOLS Solving Constraint Cell Formation Problems: A Neural Network Approach 231(20) Der-San Chen Hui-Chuan Chen Jung Me Park Machine-Part Matrix Family Formation Implemented on a Parallel Neuro-Computer Utilizing an ART1 Neural Network 251(34) David Enke Kanchitpol Ratanapan Cihan Dagli A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm for Manufacturing Cell Formation 285(26) Chao-Hsien Chu Chang-Chun Tsai Design of Material Handling System for Manufacturing Cell in an Agile Environment 311(24) Elsayed A. Orady Amir El-Baghdady Tarek A. Osman Machine Cell Design Using Computer Simulation 335(22) Ali K. Kamrani Rong Wang Kevin Hubbard Index 357
