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Title An Integrated Approach for the Operational Design of a CMS
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Subject Cellular Manufacturing System, Grouping Efficacy, Makespan, Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
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Author Ayesha Maroof , Adnan Tariq ,Sahar Noor
Publish Year 2021
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Diss#. https://doi.org/10.22581/muet1982.2102
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Pages 265-275
Text Language English
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Library Section Research Article
Abstract Shorter product life cycles, unpredictable demand patterns and the ever-shrinking time to market, have been constantly keeping the manufacturing firms under a lot of pressure. To face these challenges the manufacturing organizations have been shifting to Cellular Manufacturing (CM) due to its benefits of reducing manufacturing costs, increasing flexibility and delivering orders on time. Despite having several benefits, designing a Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) for a real-life application is a tough ask. The main challenge is the part-machine grouping in cells. It becomes even more challenging when the group scheduling (GS) problem is handled alongside the part-machine clustering. To take up this challenge, an integrated model is developed during this research which handles the machine-part grouping and the GS problems, simultaneously. To optimize the multiple objectives of maximizing Grouping Efficacy (GE) and minimizing Makespan (Cmax), concurrently, a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm (