A Fuzzy Clustering Approach to Manufacturing Cell Formation

• Main Authors: CHU, Chao-Hsien, Hayya, J. C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1991
• Subjects: Computer Sciences; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1796; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207549108948024
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Cell formation, one of the most important problems faced in designing cellular manufacturing systems, is to group parts with similar geometry, function, material and process into part families and the corresponding machines into machine cells. There has been an extensive amount of work in this area...