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Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS), an application of group technology philosophy, is a recent technological innovation that can be used to improve both productivity and flexibility in modern manufacturing environments (Signh, 93; Sarker and Xu, 1998). In practice, the essence of CMS is to decompose a manufacturing system into manageable autonomous subsystems (called manufacturing cells) so as to enhance shop-floor control, material handling, tooling, and scheduling. The decomposition process involves identification of part families with similar processes or design features and machine cells so that each family can possibly be processed in a single cell. In addition to this, machine layout within each cell is considered essential in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the overall production system. Consequently, setup times, work-in-process inventories, and throughput times are reduced significantly. The overall process of designing CMS involves the following four generic phases:

Integrated Cellular Manufacturing System Design and Layout Using Group Genetic Algorithms