Case on Manufacturing Cell Formation Using Production Flow Analysis

This paper offers a case study, in which methodological aspects of cell design for transformation the production process are applied. The cell redesign in this work is tightly focused to reach optimization of material flows under real manufacturing conditions. Accordingly, more individual techniques were aggregated into compact methodical procedure with aim to built one-piece flow production. Case study was concentrated on relatively typical situation of transformation from batch production to cellular manufacturing.

Authors:

• Vladimír Modrák

Keywords:

• Product/Quantity analysis
• layout
• design
• manufacturing process.

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