Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 21, Pages 6517-6537Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2010.524902
Keywords
dynamic virtual cellular manufacturing system; production planning; worker flexibility; exceptional elements; fuzzy goal programming
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- Iran National Science Foundation (INSF)
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This article presents a fuzzy goal programming-based approach for solving a multi-objective mathematical model of cell formation problem and production planning in a dynamic virtual cellular manufacturing system. In a dynamic environment, the product mix and part demand change over a planning horizon decomposed into several time periods. Thus, the cell formation done for one period may be no longer efficient for subsequent periods and hence reconfiguration of cells is required. Due to the variation of demand and necessity of reconfiguration of cells, the virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) concept has been proposed by researchers to utilise the benefits of cellular manufacturing without reconfiguration charges. In a VCM system, machines, parts and workers are temporarily grouped for one period during which machines and workers of a group dedicatedly serve the parts of that group. The only difference of VCM with a real CM is that machines of the same group are not necessarily brought to a physical proximity in VCM. The virtual cells are created periodically depending on changes in demand volumes and mix, as new parts accumulate during a planning horizon. The major advantage of the proposed model is the consideration of demand and part mix variation over a multi-period planning horizon with worker flexibility. The aim is to minimise holding cost, backorder cost and exceptional elements in a cubic space of machine-part-worker incidence matrix. To illustrate the applicability of the proposed model, an example has been solved and computational results are presented.
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