Das, K.; Lashkari, R.S.; Sengupta, S. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 23 (2006) 7, pp. 880-904
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: develop an effective cellular manufacturing system (CMS) design methodology by simultaneously considering system costs and individual machine reliabilities; and propose a combinatorial search‐based solution procedure to solve large‐sized problems....