Adopting lean manufacturing techniques in small and medium manufacturing enterprises [PDF]
, 2010 Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) form a significant part of national and regional economic prosperity. They strengthen the capacity to generate employment and wealth for national and regional benefit.
Danielli, Shaun Pau
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A model for manufacturing cell job redesign [PDF]
, 1997 Cellular manufacturing is widely viewed as an exemplary form of manufacturing organisation for small batch size production. A UK survey states that over 75% of British engineering industry have introduced or are planning to introduce cellular ...
Gassmann, Robert
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Knowledge representation within information systems in manufacturing environments [PDF]
, 2004 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Representing knowledge as information content alone is insufficient in providing us with an understanding of the world around us.
Sharif, Amir M
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Sensitivity analysis of the impact of part assignment in cellular manufacturing systems [PDF]
Decision Science Letters, 2019 Optimality and efficiency are two measures that can be used by the system designer to select or compare between different optimal layouts. At the same time, the system designer has three choices of part assignment to cells in accordance with his needs ...
Abdelghafour Al-Zawahreh +3 more
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2014 Cellular manufacturing systems are well known as flexible manufacturing systems for assembly processes. Single workers carry out all assembly processes of products in the typical cellular manufacturing systems.
Yoshitaka TANIMIZU +4 more
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Cellular Manufacturing Systems, Reply to Cellular Manufacturing Systems, Reply to New Industrial Needs [PDF]
مطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول, 2006 In the beginning of this artick, attempt is done to compare briefly the different aspects of flow - shop, Job-shop and cellular manufacturing systems. Then, the development contexts of cell. manufacturing systems and also, the experiences of
jahanyar bamdad soofy
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ENHANCED PRODUCTION THROUGH NOVEL SWARM-INTELLIGENT ENABLED VIRTUAL CELL FORMATION: MULTIFACETED APPROACH [PDF]
Proceedings on Engineering SciencesIn the dynamic realm of manufacturing, it is essential to optimize production processes to attain efficiency and competitiveness. This study presents an innovative enhanced dragonfly optimization (EDFO) method to improve production by utilizing a diverse
Akhilendra Pratap Singh +3 more
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Distributed Control of a Manufacturing System with One-Dimensional Cellular Automata
Complexity, 2018 We present a distributed control modeling approach for an automated manufacturing system based on the dynamics of one-dimensional cellular automata. This is inspired by the fact that both cellular automata and manufacturing systems are discrete dynamical
Irving Barragan-Vite +4 more
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Identifications of part families and bottleneck parts in celluar manufacturing [PDF]
مطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول, 2004 Group technology (GT) has emerged as an important scientific philosophy in improving the productivity of manufacturing systems. GT philosophy offers a systems approach to the reorganization of traditional complex job shop and flow shop manufacturing ...
abolfazl kazazi, seyed ali marashi
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A multi-period group technology method for dynamic cellular manufacturing systems
South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2016 A dynamic cellular manufacturing system is a system where cell configurations change in order to respond to changing production requirements. This paper proposes methods for multi-period cell and part family formation.
Padayachee, Jared, Bright, Glen
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