TY - JOUR
T1 - A cost-based heuristic for group technology configuration!
AU - Askin, Ronald
AU - Subramanian, Subramanian P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Process planning, the link between design and manufacturing, is the next step. Process planning, includes both determining operation/machine routings for individual parts and the grouping of similar parts into a family, with its associated machines to create manufacturing cells. It is with this problem that.this paper is concerned. We attempt to construct an economic model of manufacturing costs as a Revision received January 1986. t This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants MEA 8204617 and MEA 8351497. SSystems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, 1-J ~. S.A. ˜Industrial and Management Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. U.S.A.
PY - 1987/1
Y1 - 1987/1
N2 - Group technology is a management philosophy capable of jointly simplifying management control and improving productivity. This paper proposes a heuristic approach to the economic determination of machine groups and their corresponding component families for group technology. The procedure considers coste of work-in-process and cycle inventory, intra-group material handling, set-up, variable processing and fixed machine costs. The three stage procedure initially reorders part types based on routing similarity. An attempt is then made to combine adjacent part types to reduce machine requirements. Finally groups are combined where economic benefits of utilization offset those of set-up, work-in- process and material handling. Examples illustrating the procedure and potential savings are included.
AB - Group technology is a management philosophy capable of jointly simplifying management control and improving productivity. This paper proposes a heuristic approach to the economic determination of machine groups and their corresponding component families for group technology. The procedure considers coste of work-in-process and cycle inventory, intra-group material handling, set-up, variable processing and fixed machine costs. The three stage procedure initially reorders part types based on routing similarity. An attempt is then made to combine adjacent part types to reduce machine requirements. Finally groups are combined where economic benefits of utilization offset those of set-up, work-in- process and material handling. Examples illustrating the procedure and potential savings are included.
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U2 - 10.1080/00207548708919825
DO - 10.1080/00207548708919825
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0023135130
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 25
SP - 101
EP - 113
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 1
ER -