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Book Comprehensive Models and Solution Procedures for Integrated Cellular Manufacturing Systems Design

Download or read book Comprehensive Models and Solution Procedures for Integrated Cellular Manufacturing Systems Design written by Steve Ah kioon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cellular manufacturing (CM) has emerged because of the need for manufacturing organizations to supply products that require more customization and that have shorter product life cycles and times to market. This shift from mass production to demands for mid-volume and mid-variety product mixes has shown that traditional manufacturing systems relying on functional or line layouts are not efficient and flexible enough. CM is an alternate manufacturing system combining the high throughput rates of line layouts with the flexibility offered by functional layouts (job shops). The benefits include reduced set-up times, material handling, in-process inventory, better product quality and market response time. The benefits of CM can only be achieved by sufficiently incorporating the real-life structural and operational features of a manufacturing plant when creating the cellular layout. This research presents two integrated CM models, with an extensive coverage of important manufacturing structural and operational features. The first CM model is initially formulated as a mixed integer non-linear program that incorporates multi-period production planning and dynamic system reconfiguration with deterministic production requirements. It consists of alternate process routings, the operation sequence of parts, machine duplication, machine procurement and machine capacity. Preliminary computational experiments show that only small-scale problems can be solved using the developed mixed integer non-linear program. This warrants the linearization procedures that are proposed to convert it into a linearized mixed integer programming formulation so as to solve problems of larger scale. This linearized mixed integer program is first solved using an exact solution (ES) procedure through the simplex-based branch and cut procedure of CPLEX software. Computational results are presented by solving some small-scale to large-scale numerical examples, extracted from existing literature. Although small to medium-sized problems can be solved using ES, larger ones (representing real-life sized problems) cannot be solved within reasonable computational times. A tabu search meta-heuristic is, therefore, developed to solve this mixed integer linear program. The results show that the tabu search procedure generates good quality solutions for real-life size problems within acceptable computational times. The second model addresses the same attributes as the first one but an important extension is the introduction of routing flexibility in the system by the formation of additional alternate part process routings, called contingency routings . In addition to the alternate main process routings being created for each part type, the model forms contingency routings, which serve as backups so as to effectively address the reality of part process routing disruptions, thus allowing the cellular manufacturing system to operate in a continuous manner even in the event of any breakdowns. This enhanced model is formulated as a mixed integer linear program and is then solved using the simplex-based branch and cut procedure of CPLEX (ES). The results show that the contingency and main routings can be formed simultaneously, thus bringing enhanced system and routing flexibility. The trade-off between the increased system flexibility obtained versus the additional cost to be incurred through the formation of contingency routings for all parts is discussed by comparing the solutions obtained from the model without routing flexibility and the one with routing flexibility. It is found that the enhanced system flexibility enabled by contingency routings offsets the additional system investment costs. Keywords : integrated cellular manufacturing systems design, mixed integer programming, linearization procedures, simplex-based branch and cut procedure, tabu search, routing flexibility, contingency routings, enhanced CM system flexibility.

Book Planning  Design  and Analysis of Cellular Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Planning Design and Analysis of Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by A.K. Kamrani and published by Newnes. This book was released on 1995-04-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading researchers in the field of cellular manufacturing systems from academia and industry have contributed to this volume. The book aims to report the latest developments and address the central issues in the design and implementation of cellular manufacturing systems. Cellular Manufacturing (CM) is one of the major concepts used in the design of flexible manufacturing systems. CM, also known as group production or family programming, can be described as a manufacturing technique that produces families of parts within a single line or cell of machines. The first part of the book describes various techniques for design and modeling of cellular manufacturing systems. The second part is concerned with performance measure and analysis, followed by a section which presents the applications of artifical intelligence and computer tools in cellular manufacturing systems.

Book Cellular Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by N. Singh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batch manufactcring is a dominant manufacturing activity in the world, generating a great deal of industrial output. In the coming years, we are going to witness an era of mass customization of products. The major problems in batch manufacturing are a high level of product variety and small manufacturing lot sizes. The product variations present design engineers with the problem of designing many different parts. The decisions made in the design stage significantly affect manufacturing cost, quality and delivery lead times. The impacts of these product variations in manufacturing are high investment in equipment, high tooling costs, complex scheduling and loading, lengthy setup time and costs, excessive scrap and high quality control costs. However, to compete in a global market, it is essential to improve the productivity in small batch manufacturing industries. For this purpose, some innovative methods are needed to reduce product cost, lead time and enhance product quality to help increase market share and profitability. What is also needed is a higher level of integration of the design and manufacturing activities in a company. Group technology provides such a link between design and manufacturing. The adoption of group technology concepts, which allow for small batch production to gain economic advantages similar to mass production while retaining the flexibility of job shop methods, will help address some of the problems.

Book Cellular Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by Gürsel A. Süer and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters included in this book represent the work from the US, Canada, Japan, China, India, Iran, Netherlands, Turkey, Slovakia, and Portugal. The book attempts to cover the cellular manufacturing area from various angles. In terms of solution techniques, different approaches such as heuristics, mathematical models, networks models, genetic algorithm approaches, artificial neural networks, knowledge-based algorithms, a space search algorithm, simulated annealing, fuzzy concepts, analytic hierarchy processes and simulation are included in the book. As for performance measures, most chapters target a single objective whereas some others cover multiple objectives. In terms of the complexity of the problems, the authors divide them into simpler single phase problems versus more complex problems that require multiple-phase solutions. Most of the chapters discuss deterministic problems. On the other hand, a few of the chapters focus on stochastic cases. There are many new concepts and solution approaches covered in this book. The details of the material coverage is listed in the following paragraphs. The book starts with the evolution of cellular manufacturing. In terms of design-related issues, it covers the application of math modeling for cell formation, family and subfamily formation, production system selection, formation and evaluation of design alternatives, machine layout, dynamic cells, virtual cells, cell formation considering alternative routes, remainder cells, cell formation with product of life cycle considerations, demand-variability based cell formation, layered cellular design, assembly cells and a recent Japanese proposition called SERU cells. All types of cells, namely labor-intensive cells, machine-intensive cells and robotic cells are covered in the book. In terms of operational and control issues, human skills, manpower allocation, cell size determination, dispatching rules, parallel machine scheduling, flowshop scheduling, re-entrant flowshop scheduling, flexible job shop scheduling, assembly line balancing, process planning and scheduling, multiple-resource scheduling, cell loading and cell scheduling, synchronized flow, planning concepts such as period batch control, polka, Kanban, conwip and more are discussed. Cases studies include electromechanical assembly, bicycle manufacturing, igniter assembly system, jewelry manufacturing and semi-conductor industry. We believe that this book will be of value to students, researchers, academicians and practitioners.

Book Computational Intelligence in Design and Manufacturing

Download or read book Computational Intelligence in Design and Manufacturing written by Andrew Kusiak and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Von der Produktidee über den Prototyp und die Modellsimulation bis zur Analyse: Dieser Band hilft Entwicklern und Designern beim Verständnis aller Abläufe im Zuge des Designs neuer Produkte, Prozesse und Systeme. Eine Fülle von Beispielen industrieller Anwendungen, realer Probleme und zugehöriger Lösungen hilft beim Vertiefen und Umsetzen des Stoffes. (05/00)

Book CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

Download or read book CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS written by B.S. NAGENDRA PARASHAR and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cellular manufacturing, an application of group technology, is a stepping stone to achieve world class manufacturing status. It has emerged as an important technique to cope up with fast changing industrial demands for the application of newer manufacturing systems. This comprehensive and well written text deals with all facets of cellular manufacturing right from introduction to application in a chronological order. The book first introduces cell formation techniques, followed by elimination of exceptional components, evaluation of solutions, cell characteristics, and production control issues like scheduling; line balancing and inventory control. Finally it discusses about the application of cellular manufacturing in a large public sector.The text is supported by numerous figures, tables and examples, and also furnishes simple algorithms for complex methods. Primarily intended for the postgraduate students of mechanical engineering and production engineering with specialization in manufacturing systems/group technology, it will also be useful for the researchers, scientists and professionals as a reference book.

Book Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing

Download or read book Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing written by Nallan C. Suresh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing (GT/CM) have been widely-researched areas in the past 15 years and much progress has been made in all branches of GT/CM. Resulting from this research activity has been a proliferation of techniques for part-machine grouping, engineering data bases, expert system-based design methods for identifying part families, new analytical and simulation tools for evaluating performance of cells, new types of cell incorporating robotics and flexible automation, team-based approaches for organizing the work force and much more; however, the field lacks a careful compilation of this research and its outcomes. The editors of this book have commissioned leading researchers and implementers to prepare specific treatments of topics for their special areas of expertise in this broad-based philosophy of manufacturing. The editors have sought to be global both in coverage of topic matters and contributors. Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing addresses the needs and interests of three groups of individuals in the manufacturing field: academic researchers, industry practitioners, and students. (1) The book provides an up-to-date perspective, incorporating the advances made in GT/CM during the past 15 years. As a natural extension to this research, it synthesizes the latest industry practices and outcomes to guide research to greater real-world relevance. (2) The book makes clear the foundations of GT/CM from the core elements of new developments which are aimed at reducing developmental and manufacturing lead times, costs, and at improving business quality and performance. (3) Finally, the book can be used as a textbook for graduate students in engineering and management for studying the field of Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing.

Book Bacteria Foraging on Cell Formation in Cellular Manufacturing System

Download or read book Bacteria Foraging on Cell Formation in Cellular Manufacturing System written by Hossein Nouri and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) is considered as an efficient production strategy for batch type production. The CMS relies on the principle of grouping machines into machine cells and grouping machine parts into part families that is named cell formation. Cells are formed based on presuming fixed single route and parts demand (traditional cell formation) or fluctuation of parts demand (dynamic cell formation). This research work attempts to solve a developed comprehensive model which integrated cell formation and process planning problem meanwhile taking into consideration important cell design issues. In addition, one of the main challenges has been development of efficient algorithm for solving aforementioned model to find exact feasible optimal solution. Therefore, for this proposes good benchmarked algorithm, bacteria foraging algorithm is selected and developed to solve multi-objective cell formation model and traced constraints satisfaction handling to produce feasible optimal solution.

Book Group Technology And Cellular Manufacturing

Download or read book Group Technology And Cellular Manufacturing written by Ali Κ. Kamrani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the latest up-to-date documentation on the scope of research in Group Technology (GT) and Cellular Manufacturing (CM). It is a comprehensive listing of the methodologies, techniques, algorithms and tools used for practical implementation of the concepts of GT and CM.

Book Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by Shahrukh A. Irani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cellular manufacturing (CM) is the grouping of similar products for manufacture in discrete multi-machine cells. It has been proven to yield faster production cycles, lower in-process inventory levels, and enhanced product quality. Pioneered on a large scale by Russian, British, and German manufacturers, interest in CM methods has grown steadily over the past decade. However, there continues to be a dearth of practical guides for industrial engineers and production managers interested in implementing CM techniques in their plants. Bringing together contributions by an international team of CM experts, the Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems bridges this gap in the engineering literature.

Book Design Methodologies Towards a Sustainable Manufacturing Enterprise

Download or read book Design Methodologies Towards a Sustainable Manufacturing Enterprise written by Tariq Aljuneidi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is increasingly becoming a crucial concern in many aspects of life. Even though, there is a relatively growing interest from both academic researchers and practitioners in various design aspects of sustainability, one can see that design issues of sustainable manufacturing systems have not received adequate attention. Through an extensive literature review on design for sustainability and sustainability issues, it is observed that, attaining sustainability in manufacturing needs a huge amount of effort and needs to take into consideration many aspects from different perspectives. These include considering the sustainability in both the closed loop supply chain (CLSC) and the manufacturing system levels simultaneously, considering Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMSs), considering reconfigurability for the production systems, considering Hybrid Manufacturing-Remanufacturing Systems as well as considering the recovery options such as recycling and remanufacturing. This research presents a simultaneous investigation of Reconfigurable Cellular Manufacturing Systems and Hybrid Manufacturing-Remanufacturing Systems (HMRSs), and proposes an integrated approach in design optimization, analysis, and process planning aspects as an attempt to address to a large number of design issues for Sustainable Manufacturing Systems, while the options of remanufacturing, recycling, and disposing are introduced. Four mathematical model have been developed. Third part cellular remanufacturing systems design are considered within the first model, which is initially formulated as a mixed integer non-linear program that incorporates multi-period production planning, dynamic system reconfiguration, and workforce management with deterministic production requirements. It consists the costs of machines maintenance and overhead, relocation costs for machines installation and removal, part holding cost, workers’ costs of salary, hiring, and firing, part intercellular movement cost, machine procurement cost, internal production cost, machine operating cost, the cost of acquiring the returned products, setup cost for disassembly operations, disassembly cost, the inventory cost of the returned products, parts disposal cost. Linearization procedures are proposed to convert it into a linearized mixed integer programming formulation. This linearized mixed integer program is solved using an exact solution (ES) procedure through the simplex-based branch and cut procedure of CPLEX software. The second model considered the design of cellular hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system, where manufacturing new products using an outsourced parts and remanufacturing using returned products are performed in the same facility by using shared resources. The overall objective of the model is to minimize the total cost of the three main categories of costs; 1) Machine cost: maintenance and overhead costs, relocation costs of installation and removal of machines, machine procurement costs, and machine operating costs, 2) Costs associated with manufacturing and remanufacturing: production costs for both new and remanufactured components, holding cost for new components, holding cost for remanufactured components, setup cost for new components, setup cost for remanufactured components, 3) Costs associated with returned products for remanufacturing: cost of acquiring the returned products, setup cost for disassembly operations, disassembly cost, and inventory cost of the returned products. Computational results and sensitivity analysis for an important design features are also reported.The third model addresses the same attributes as the second one but an important extension is the introduction of recycling (for the end-of-life parts) and disposing of the parts with no further use. In addition, the new parts production in the third model are totally depends on the recycled parts coming from the recycling center, wherein the second model it depends on the raw material purchasing from outsourcing. As the third model is the most comprehensive one, which considers a closed loop supply chain starts from a cellular hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system and ends with the customer zone, through the introducing of different centers like, collection, disassembly, and recycling centers, and in order to have one more step toward the design of sustainable closed loop supply chain, the fourth model are formulated. The fourth model is designed to minimize the carbon foot prints and the total cost which contains the opening costs for different centers and the transportation costs between these centersKeywords: Sustainability, Sustainable manufacturing system, cellular manufacturing systems design, Reconfigurable manufacturing system, mixed integer programming, Hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system, Closed loop supply chain, Reverse logistics, Carbon footprints, Facility location.

Book Practical Guide to Digital Manufacturing

Download or read book Practical Guide to Digital Manufacturing written by Zhuming Bi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the subject of digital manufacturing. It provides a practical guide for readers on using computer aided design (CAD), computer aided engineering (CAE) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) and other computer assistive tools for the design of products, machines, processes and system integrations through the case studies of engineering projects. The book introduces a thorough theoretical foundation and discussion of the historical development, and enabling technologies of digital manufacturing. It also covers a broad range of computer aided tools for a variety of applications including: geometric modelling; assembly modelling; motion simulation; finite element analysis; manufacturing process simulation; machining programming; product data management; and, product lifecycle management. Practical Guide to Digital Manufacturing uses many real-world case studies to illustrate the discussed applications, making it easily readable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as engineers with the needs of computer-aided design and manufacturing knowledge and skills.

Book Computer Aided and Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Computer Aided and Integrated Manufacturing Systems written by Cornelius T. Leondes and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable five-volume reference on the very broad and highly significant subject of computer aided and integrated manufacturing systems. It is a set of distinctly titled and well-harmonized volumes by leading experts on the international scene. The techniques and technologies used in computer aided and integrated manufacturing systems have produced, and will no doubt continue to produce, major annual improvements in productivity, which is defined as the goods and services produced from each hour of work. This publication deals particularly with more effective utilization of labor and capital, especially information technology systems. Together the five volumes treat comprehensively the major techniques and technologies that are involved. Contents: .: Optimal Dynamic Facility Design of Manufacturing Systems (T L Urban); Rapid Prototyping Technologies and Limitations (C K Chua & S M Chou); Visual Assessment of Free-Form Surfaces in CADCAM (R J Cripps & A A Ball); and other articles. Readership: Graduate students, academics, researchers, and industrialists in computer engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, artificial intelligence and operations management

Book Cell Formation in Industrial Engineering

Download or read book Cell Formation in Industrial Engineering written by Boris Goldengorin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models and algorithms for cell formation in group technology. Its main aim is to provide a reliable tool that can be used by managers and engineers to design manufacturing cells based on their own preferences and constraints imposed by a particular manufacturing system. This tool could potentially lower production costs by minimizing other costs in a number of areas, thereby increasing profit in a manufacturing system. In the volume, the cell formation problem is considered in a systematic and formalized way, and several models are proposed, both heuristic and exact. The models are based on general clustering problems, and are flexible enough to allow for various objectives and constraints. The authors also provide results of numerical experiments involving both artificial data from academic papers in the field and real manufacturing data to certify the appropriateness of the models proposed. The book was intended to suit the broadest possible audience, and thus all algorithmic details are given in a detailed description with multiple numerical examples and informal explanations are provided for the theoretical results. In addition to managers and industrial engineers, this book is intended for academic researchers and students. It will also be attractive to many theoreticians, since it addresses many open problems in computer science and bioinformatics.

Book Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems written by W. Dale Compton and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems is a fresh look at manufacturing from a systems point of view. This collection of papers from a symposium sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering explores the need for new technologies, the more effective use of new tools of analysis, and the improved integration of all elements of manufacturing operations, including machines, information, and humans. It is one of the few volumes to include detailed proposals for research that match the needs of industry.