Beschreibung:
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.
1. The problem of cell formation.- 2. ¿The p-Median problem.- 3. Application of the PMP to cell formation in group technology.- 4. The minimum multicut problem and an exact model for cell formation.- 5. Multiobjective nature of cell formation.- 6. Pattern-based heuristic for the cell formation problem in group technology.- 7. Branch-and-bound algorithm for bi-criterion cell formation problems.- 8. Summary and conclusions.- A. Solutions to the 35 CF instances from [71].- Index.- References.