Abstract
Manufacturing system design is one of the most crucial steps of business processes. Several approaches have been proposed and implemented to increase productivity and profitability due to the change in customer characteristics, market condition and economy. Cellular Manufacturing (CM) is one of the approaches that emerged as an application of Group Technology in the late 70s due to the increase in product variety and demand variance. Group Technology (GT) is a product-oriented manufacturing approach to group similar products for smaller batch size production. As an application of GT, CM is the physical or virtual division of manufacturing facilities into manufacturing cells. A manufacturing cell is a small group of machines and/or workers ideally arranged in a flow layout to produce “similar items”, in other words “product families”.
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