TY - GEN
T1 - Testing the feasibility of adapting cellular manufacturing in an early stage of design
AU - Bashir, Hamdi A.
AU - Karaa, Samir
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The feasibility of adapting cellular manufacturing is currently tested through results obtained from applying a selected method for cell formation where it is not possible to judge whether a failure to form good machine cells is due to the bad performance of the selected method or the unsuitability of cellular manufacturing. This paper describes a simple approach to test whether an underlying pattern of relationship exists between the machines of a given system, such that the machines may be rearranged into manufacturing cells without reliance on results obtained from applying a cell formation method.
AB - The feasibility of adapting cellular manufacturing is currently tested through results obtained from applying a selected method for cell formation where it is not possible to judge whether a failure to form good machine cells is due to the bad performance of the selected method or the unsuitability of cellular manufacturing. This paper describes a simple approach to test whether an underlying pattern of relationship exists between the machines of a given system, such that the machines may be rearranged into manufacturing cells without reliance on results obtained from applying a cell formation method.
KW - Cellular manufacturing
KW - Clusterability feasibility
KW - Eigenvalues
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888361057
SN - 9789889867171
T3 - Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
SP - 2177
EP - 2180
BT - IMECS 2007 - International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2007
T2 - International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2007, IMECS 2007
Y2 - 21 March 2007 through 23 March 2007
ER -