Overview
- First book to address the cell formation theory and its applications from the perspective of a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models and algorithms for cell formation in group technology
- Addresses new methodologies to solve cell formation problems
- Can be used as supplementary text at the graduate and post-graduate levels in all fields of engineering
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications (SOIA, volume 79)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 imposed by a particular manufacturing system. This tool could potentially lower production costs by minimizing other costs in a number of areas, thereby increasing profit in a manufacturing system.
In the volume, the cell formation problem is considered in a systematic and formalized way, and several models are proposed, both heuristic and exact. The models are based on general clustering problems, and are flexible enough to allow for various objectives and constraints. The authors also provide results of numerical experiments involving both artificial data from academic papers in the field and real manufacturing data to certify the appropriateness of the models proposed.
The book was intended to suit the broadest possible audience, and thus all algorithmic details are given in a detailed description with multiple numerical examples and informal explanations are provided for the theoretical results. In addition to managers and industrial engineers, this book is intended for academic researchers and students. It will also be attractive to many theoreticians, since it addresses many open problems in computer science and bioinformatics.
Reviews
“The book under review is a very good source … continuing the long term passion of Panos Pardalos and his collaborators in exact solution of difficult problems … . It also adds a very valuable contribution to the body of knowledge of the cell formation problem that can be used in both teaching and research including in bioinformatics.” (Boris Mirkin, Optimization Letters, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cell Formation in Industrial Engineering
Book Subtitle: Theory, Algorithms and Experiments
Authors: Boris Goldengorin, Dmitry Krushinsky, Panos M. Pardalos
Series Title: Springer Optimization and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8002-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8001-3Published: 23 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8540-8Published: 22 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8002-0Published: 23 August 2013
Series ISSN: 1931-6828
Series E-ISSN: 1931-6836
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 206
Topics: Computational Science and Engineering, Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics