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Case study: reconfiguring a manufacturing system for strategic advantage - a real-world application

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Over the last ten years scores of methodologies have emerged in management science/operations research/statistics that employ techniques such as mathematical programming, simulation, artificial intelligence, and clustering to convert a flexible manufacturing system into a cellular one. Based on a real-life case that involved over 1,000 components and 3,000 operations, related to a world-class furniture manufacturing company, finds that the somewhat outdated King’s algorithm, after partial linearization, works as well as the other sophisticated techniques in terms of speed and problem size. The case study drives home the point that a shift to cellular configuration from functional layout results in across the board savings in material movement, setup times, hilo moves, WIP, work area and in manufacturing leadtime. The company under study benefited to the tune of $164,000 per year from switch to single cell. The projected savings are expected to exceed $700,000 per year when the reconfiguration is completed.

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Judul Seri

Logistics Information Management

No. Panggil

ATC LO MOT c

Penerbit

USA : Emerald Insight., 1998

Deskripsi Fisik

15 p.

Bahasa

English

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LO

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

Volume 11 · Number 4 · 1998 · pp. 244–256

Subjek

Supply Chain Management
Logistics
Manufacturing systems

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Jaideep Motwani

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