Computational Techniques to Solve Part Family Formation Problem: Using Classification and Coding System

Modak, Mousumi, Dan, Pranab K.

ISBN 10: 3659299502 / ISBN 13: 9783659299506

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Computational Techniques to Solve Part Family Formation Problem: Using Classification and Coding System
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659299502
• ISBN 13: 9783659299506
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Group Technology (GT) and Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) portray a significant role in improving productivity for manufacturing organisations. GT is a technique that identifies homogeneous parts and further clusters them into part families based on their manufacturing designs, attributes and geometric shapes. A successful implementation of GT can eventually shrink the engineering costs, facilitate cellular manufacturing, quicken product development, enhance costing accuracy, etc. A major prerequisite in implementing GT is the recognition of part families. Part Coding Analysis proved to be an evolutionary technique in establishing such part similarities. Clustering analysis is practiced in CMS as a competent methodology to facilitate the machine-part grouping problems. In this research, different clustering techniques such as Single Linkage Clustering, Complete Linkage Clustering and K-means Clustering Algorithms have been adopted to investigate the nature of similarities and to describe the effectiveness of the techniques in solving the part family problem. Besides, Principal Component Analysis and Particle Swarm Optimization were used to form competent part families.

About the Author

Mousumi Modak is presently, a Doctoral Student in Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She obtained her Master of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology, India.