Modern industry puts a lot of challenges on all the people involved. High quality standards
and high customization, tight deadlines, and small volumes of orders already pose a lot of …

The manufacturing cell formation problem, with the aim of grouping parts into families and
machines into cells, is considered with the objective of maximizing grouping efficacy. A new …

The cell formation problem determines decomposition of the manufacturing cells of a
production system. Machines are assigned to the cells to process one or more part families …

The cellular manufacturing technology, an application of group technology in manufacturing,
has been a widely studied combinatorial optimization problem where the entire production …

The earliest approaches to the cell formation problem in group technology, dealing with a
binary machine-part incidence matrix, were aimed only at minimizing the number of intercell …

Utilizing advanced information technology to identify the intellectual structure of patents is
important for the fast-emerging cloud computing industry; however, related literature is …

Cellular Manufacturing (CM), an approach primarily based on the concept of Group
Technology (GT), is one of the recent trends that help the manufacturing industry in reducing …

Cellular Manufacturing (CM), an approach primarily based on the concept of Group
Technology (GT), is one of the recent trends that help the manufacturing industry in reducing …

This chapter provides a general overview of the cell formation problem, including the origins
of the problem, a discussion on the relevance of a cellular layout together with its …

This chapter focuses on the p-median problem (PMP) and its properties. We consider a
pseudo-Boolean formulation of the PMP, demonstrate its advantages and derive the most …