01947nam a2200241   450000500170000000800410001703500150005810000170007324500720009026000520016230000150021449000270022950001440025650200580040052008940045865000210135270000330137370000480140670000450145471000820149981000590158185600650164020260817173356.0010798         th                  eng    a.b101513211 aPaul, Anupam10aComparative study of part grouping methods in a manufacturing plant  aBangkok :bAsian Institute of Technology,c1992  a128 leaves1 aThesis ;vno. IE-92-28  aA thesis submitted m partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of  engineering, School of Engineering and Technology  aThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1992  aDemand of different types of products in relatively smaller quantities by the consumers  are increasing day by day. This trend leads to high product variety. Cellular manufacturing system  appears to be a perfect instrument to handle this environment. Group f01mation is one of the first  problems to be solved in the system design phase and number of methods and algorithms are  available to form groups.  In this study, two commonly used group formation techniques, the rank order clustering  technique and the similarity co-efficient technique, have been simulated to evaluate the efficiency  of the techniques in terms of some commonly known criterion such as production, machine and  worker utilization etc. The simulated results have been used to compare the efficiency of the  group formation techniques and to find a method that leads to the formation of the most suitable  groups. 0aGroup technology1 aPandey, P. C., eChairperson1 aTabucanon, Mario T.,eExamination Committee1 aBohez, Erik L.J.,eExamination Committee2 aDEUTSCHER AKADEMISCHER AUSTAUSCHDIENST (DAAD),  Germany., eScholarship Donor2 aAsian Institute of Technology.tThesis ;vno. IE-92-28  3Full-Textuhttp://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B17220