A Systematic Review of Cellular Manufacturing System Approaches.

Document Type : Original Article

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Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

10.1088/1757-899X/973/1/amme.2025.449060

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Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMS) is a key approach to improve production efficiency by integrating the principles of Group Technology (GT). In this review paper, three core aspects of CMS: Cell Formation (CF), Group Layout Design (GL), and Group Scheduling (GS) are studied to emphasise their impact on manufacturing performance. A systematic literature review was conducted, to analyse the most recent journal articles from reputable sources, focusing on optimization approaches applied to CMS. Notably, this is the first review paper that comprehensively discusses different CMS approaches, providing a comparative analysis of their optimization strategies. The findings indicate that CF represents (46%), and GS represents (36%) receive the most research attention due to their direct influence on cost reduction, throughput, and system flexibility, while GL represents (18%) which remains relatively underexplored. This study categorizes optimization techniques into exact-search methods (30%), heuristic algorithms (27%), and meta-heuristic approaches (43%), highlighting the dominance of Genetic Algorithms (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), and Multi-Objective Programming in solving CMS-related problems. By integrating recent methodologies, this study provides valuable insights into CMS optimization trends and outlines key directions for future research.
The International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering
Volume 22, Issue 22
22nd International Conference on Applied Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering, AMME-22
2025
Pages 1-16

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