TY - BOOK AU - Parashar,B S Nagendra Parashar TI - Cellular manufacturing systems: An integrated approach SN - 9788120336018 (pbk) U1 - 670.427 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - PHI KW - Manufacturing cells KW - Manufacturing industries KW - Technology N1 - Includes bibliographies and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; Part family formation: coding and classification systems --; 3; Part-machine group analysis: methods for cell formation --; 4; Similarity coefficient-based clustering: methods for cell formation --; 5; Mathematical programming and graph theoretic methods for cell formation --; 6; Novel methods for cell formation --; 7; Other mathematical programming methods for cell formation --; 8; Layout planning in cellular manufacturing --; 9; Production planning in cellular manufacturing --; 10; Control of cellular flexible manufacturing systems; Jeffrey S. Smith and Sanjay B. Joshi N2 - The focus of this book is the modeling and analysis of cellular manufacturing systems. Cellular manufacturing, an application of Group Technology, has contributed significantly to revolutionizing the management of modern low volume/high variety manufacturing systems; Cellular Manufacturing Systems is organized in a logical order following the design, planning and control phases of manufacturing. Key topics covered are various cell formation approaches, layout and production planning issues, and control issues in cellular flexible manufacturing systems ER -