This paper discusses and reviews a fundamental issue in cellular manufacturing—cell
formation. This problem is of strategic and operational importance in that it affects the …

This paper presents a literature review of the cell formation (CF) problem concentrating on
formulations proposed in the last decade. It refers to a number of solution approaches that …

Metaheuristics are the most exciting development in approximate optimization techniques of
the last two decades. They have had widespread successes in attacking a variety of difficult …

The large-scale adoption of composite materials in industry has allowed for a greater
freedom in design and function of structures and their respective components. However, the …

Rapid developments in the field of genetic algorithms along with the popularity of the first
edition precipitated this completely revised, thoroughly updated second edition of The …

Design of cellular manufacturing systems: An invited review Page 1 284 European Journal of
Operational Research 69 (1993) 284-291 North-Holland Design of cellular manufacturing …

Optimization is a very broad field of research with a wide spectrum of important applications.
Until the 1950s, optimization was understood as a single-objective optimization, ie, as the …

The use of intelligent techniques in the manufacturing field has been growing the last
decades due to the fact that most manufacturing optimization problems are combinatorial …

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is an approach that can be used to enhance both flexibility and
efficiency in today's small-to-medium lot production environment. The design of a CM system …

This paper describes a genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the problem of optimal facilities
layout in manufacturing systems design so that material-handling costs are minimized. The …