Ampazis, Nikolaos; Minis, Ioannis - In: Computational Management Science 1 (2004) 3, pp. 275-292
A new, efficient clustering method for solving the cellular manufacturing problem is presented in this paper. The method uses the part-machine incidence matrix of the manufacturing system to form machine cells, each of which processes a family of parts. By doing so, the system is decomposed into...