An Improved Fuzzy Clustering Method for Cellular Manufacturing

• Main Authors: LI, J., CHU, Chao-Hsien, WANG, Y., YAN, W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Cellular manufacturing; Cell formation; Fuzzy clustering; Fuzzy c-means; Computer Sciences; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1786; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540600634923
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Fuzzy c-means (FCM) has been successfully adapted to solve the manufacturing cell formation problem. However, when the problem becomes larger and especially if the data is ill structured, the FCM may result in clustering errors, infeasible solutions, and uneven distribution of parts/machines. In thi...