Cell Formation in Industrial Engineering Theory, Algorithms and Experiments /

• Main Authors: Goldengorin, Boris (Author), Krushinsky, Dmitry (Author), Pardalos, Panos M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 79
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Mathematical models.; Operations research.; Management science.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

This book focuses on a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models and algorithms for cell formation in group technology. Its main aim is to provide a reliable tool that can be used by managers and engineers to design manufacturing cells based on their own preferences and constraints impo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The problem of cell formation
• 2. The p-Median problem
• 3. Application of the PMP to cell formation in group technology
• 4. The minimum multicut problem and an exact model for cell formation
• 5. Multiobjective nature of cell formation
• 6. Pattern-based heuristic for the cell formation problem in group technology
• 7. Branch-and-bound algorithm for bi-criterion cell formation problems
• 8. Summary and conclusions
• A. Solutions to the 35 CF instances from [71]
• Index
• References.