Considering Assembly Operations and Product Structure for Manufacturing Cell Formation

This paper considers the integration of assembly operations and product structure to Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) design so that to correct the drawbacks of previous researches in the literature. For this purpose, a new mathematical model is developed which dedicates machining and assembly operations to manufacturing cells while the objective function is to minimize the intercellular movements resulting due to both of them. A linearization method is applied to achieve optimum solution through solving aforementioned nonlinear model by common programming language such as Lingo. Then, using different examples and comparing the results, the importance of integrating assembly considerations is demonstrated.

Authors:

• M.B. Aryanezhad
• J. Aliabadi

Keywords:

• Assembly operations and Product structure
• CellFormation
• Genetic Algorithm.

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