Simultaneous grouping of parts and machines with an integrated fuzzy clustering method

Authors:
Karine Josien;T. Warren Liao
Affiliations:
Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, Louisiana State University, 3128 CEBA, Baton Rouge, LA;Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, Louisiana State University, 3128 CEBA, Baton Rouge, LA
Venue:
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Several studies have used the fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm for part-machine grouping in cellular manufacturing. However, the application of the standard FCM algorithm to this problem has a number of drawbacks. This paper proposes a modified FCM (MFCM) ...