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1998 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Part-Machine-Labor Grouping: The Problem and Solution Methods
Author : S. M. Shafer
Published in: Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing
Publisher: Springer US
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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It is safe to say that no topic in the cellular manufacturing (CM) field has been as widely researched as has the topic of cell formation. Generally speaking, cell formation is concerned with grouping machines and labor into cells. Once formed, the cells are dedicated to the production of a set of parts that have similar processing requirements called part families.