Incorporating human resources in group technology/cellular manufacturing

摘要

In today's fiercely competitive marketplace, firms are looking for ways to improve their profitability. Computer simulation studies comparing group technology/cel- lular manufacturing (GT/CM) to job-shop layouts addressed this topic. However, each study ignored some of the most basic operating conditions said to give GT/ CM its advantages: this simulation study incorporates some of those operating Conditions like human resource issues, such as learning and labour constraints, in A comprehensive setting. The results indicate that GT/CM significantly outper- Forms the job shop layout in almost every environmental setting.