A decision support tool to facilitate the design of cellular manufacturing layouts

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 380-403

  Vitanov, V ^a   Tjahjono, B ^a   Marghalany, I ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell formation; Cellular manufacturing; Heuristics; Production flow analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CELL FORMATION; ILL-STRUCTURED MATRICES; PRODUCTION FLOW ANALYSIS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248144929     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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