Cellular manufacturing: A taxonomic review framework
Journal of Manufacturing SystemsPublished 1 January 1994
O. Felix Offodile, Abraham Mehrez, John Grznar
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The purpose of this paper is to employ a taxonomic framework for a comprehensive review of cellular manufacturing systems. Three classes of machine-part grouping techniques have been identified in cellular manufacturing: visual inspection, part coding and classification, and analysis of the production process. For this review, we concentrate on the latter approach and classify it by assumptions, characteristics, and main properties and results. A comprehensive review and discussions of various models are provided. Model assumptions and characteristics are summarized using a tabular framework. Finally, the paper provides directions for future research.
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