Chapter 25 Cellular Manufacturing
Before embarking on the scheduling process design, you should explore cellular manufacturing and its fit with your process equipment footprint. Applying cellular manufacturing to process layouts where it is applicable can greatly simplify manufacturing and scheduling. The cellular concept separates material flow paths and product groupings into much more manageable subsets, meaning that each wheel will have fewer products and fewer variables to manage. Changeovers almost always become simpler and quicker even before the structured scheduling strategy takes those benefits further.
Typical Process Plant Equipment Configurations
Cellular manufacturing only applies where you have ...
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