Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS)

Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) aims to improve the productivity and

efficiency of production by reducing throughput time. The idea underlying the cellular
manufacturing system is grouping machines into cells to produce the part family, which is a
group of parts requiring manufacturing processes are similar. However, there are several
requirements that must be done in implementing cellular manufacturing system include plant
operations using the type of layout components or processes and machinery / equipment that
can be grouped logically. Grouping engine is a critical factor in cellular manufacturing
because it determines the level of performance of the cell manufacturing.
Cellular Manufacturing describes a production system into several sub-systems, called
cell machine (machine cell), where in each cell can be processed in one or several parts
family in full without any transfer between cells. Absolute independence of each cell engine
difficult to achieve in the real world, because there are some parts that have to be processed
in more than one cell. Part is called exceptional parts, which resulted in the displacement
between the cells which increases the work-in-process, material handling costs, and decrease
the efficiency of the system. Thus, the main purpose of the machine cell formation problem is
finding grouping machines into cells that can minimize the movement of parts between cells