Cellular manufacturing is a lean manufacturing approach that helps companies build a variety of products for their customers with as little waste as possible.
Reorganizing the Factory: Completing Through Cellular Manufacturing
Skinner's quote from the 1960s provides us with an important lesson: higher quality, lower prices, more product variety, faster delivery, and greater flexibility in meeting customer needs are constant and timeless expectations.
Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems
A concept that originated in Japan, cellular manufacturing (CM) involves the layout of the production floor, the production process, and the people working in the process itself. The idea is that if similar processes can be clustered together in "cells" on the production line with a limited number of people specializing in each cell, the outcome should be faster production cycles, fewer breakdowns, and higher quality products. This handbook brings together the ideas of over 30 experts to cover all of the components as well as the applications of cellular manufacturing.
Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing: Methodologies and Applications
Cellular formation is one of the most active areas of manufacturing research because efficient cells are vital to competitive manufacturing. Issues discussed relate to the development, implementation, and evaluation of machine manufacturing systems. Focusing on how machines are chosen for tasks and how they are grouped into efficient and cost- effective assemblies, the editors surveyed the current body of research and provide the latest techniques, methodologies, algorithms and tools for practical implementation considering today's computerized and automated manufacturing environment.
