As globalisation and competition grow rapidly, adopting a flexible manufacturing philosophy
becomes more critical for manufacturers. Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) is among …

With the development of Industry 4.0 and requirement of smart factory, cellular
manufacturing system (CMS) has been widely concerned in recent years, which may leads …

Abstract African Buffalo Optimization (ABO) is a latest bio-inspired optimization technique in
the domain of evolutionary optimization, which mimics the migratory behaviour of the buffalo …

Manufacturing industries are in a constant state of competition to attract customers in a
variety of methods. Group Technology (GT) is a term used in the field of manufacturing for …

Group Technology (GT) is a contemporary manufacturing philosophy that develops part
families exploiting the resemblances of parts based on the geometric shapes, features or …

An industrial case is presented in this paper where the existing job shop layout is converted
to a cellular structure using a typical percentage utilization based bi-objective cell formation …

Percentage utilisation of machines is considered as an important production factor for
manufacturing cell formation problem (CFP) in cellular manufacturing (CM). This recently …

This paper demonstrates an exclusive design methodology in Cellular Manufacturing (CM)
considering machine usage percentage as ratio data. This research correctly emphasized …

Two key decisions in designing cell production systems are cell formation and layout design
problems. In the cell formation problem, machine groups and part families are determined …