Consensual cell searching in cellular manufacturing design

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• 作者：Egon Ostrosi ; J?rg Tautrim and Shuichi Fukuda
• 关键词：Cellular manufacturing design ; Cell formation problem ; Multiple criteria ; Consensus identification
• 刊名：The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：November 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：51
• 期：5-8
• 页码：769-788
• 全文大小：346.2 KB

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This paper presents an approach to consensual cell formation in cellular manufacturing design. The cell formation is a multi-measurable criteria problem. However, a number of factors limit the possibility of simultaneously considering multiple criteria during the cell formation. During the cellular manufacturing system design, the engineers must know the cells responding individually to each criterion. Thus, for discerning the consensus in multiple-criteria cell formation problem, a formal approach is proposed. The problem of consensus searching is formulated as the problem of searching the best overlap between potential solutions, called conjecture, under some constraints. Two models are proposed. The first model is devoted to the consensus conjecture which satisfies globally the set of measurable criteria. The second model addresses the problem of nucleus recognition. Thus, the problem of consensus searching is an alternative to the multiple-criteria problem optimisation. The results confirm the assumption that the cell formation is a process of searching and evaluating the consensual information.