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S. Sofianopoulou, “Manufacturing Cell Design with Alternative Process Plans and/or Replicate Machines,” International Journal of Produc-tion Research, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1999, pp. 707-720.

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• TITLE: Manufacturing Cells Formation Based on Graph Coloring

  AUTHORS: José Francisco Ferreira Ribeiro

  KEYWORDS: Manufacturing Cells, Group Technology, Optimization, Heuristics, Graph Theory

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Service Science and Management, Vol.3 No.4, December 28, 2010

  ABSTRACT: A method for cellular manufacturing design in Group Technology is presented in this paper. The proposed method computes the dissimilarities between parts and organizes the production system in part-families and group-machines. A graph corresponding to the production system is generated and a coloring algorithm is activated in order to obtain a number of cells equal to the desired number of cells. The corresponding program was written in Matlab language and runs on a microcomputer. The results obtained on several examples found in the literature are consistently equivalent to or even better than those hitherto proposed, in terms of inter-cell moves and dimensions of the cells.