In this paper, a critical analysis of the impact of part assignment in cellular manufacturing systems is elaborated on three cases borrowed from the literature. | Sensitivity analysis of the impact of part assignment in cellular manufacturing systems Decision Science Letters 8 2019 109 120 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Decision Science Letters homepage dsl Sensitivity analysis of the impact of part assignment in cellular manufacturing systems Abdelghafour Al-Zawahreha Nadia Dahmanib c Khaled Abu Alethemd and Adnan Mukattashd aDepartment of Business Administration Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Hashemite University Zarqa Jordan bLARODEC Laboratory Institut Superieur de Gestion 2000 Le Bardo Tunisia cDepartment of Management Emirates College of Technology Abu Dhabi UAE d Department of Industrial Management Emirates College of Technology Abu Dhabi UAE CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Optimality and efficiency are two measures that can be used by the system designer to select Received November 18 2017 or compare between different optimal layouts. At the same time the system designer has three Received in revised format choices of part assignment to cells in accordance with his needs minimum sum of voids and January 8 2018 or exceptions . Unfortunately the impact of choosing the type of part assignment on Accepted March 17 2018 Available online optimality and or efficiency is not taken into consideration in any previous studies. In this March 17 2018 paper a critical analysis of the impact of part assignment in cellular manufacturing systems is Keywords elaborated on three cases borrowed from the literature. In the first case study different Cell formation grouping efficiency measures were used on two different optimal distributions having the same Part assignment number of cells. These measures give different conflict evaluations for that the designer s Optimal solution decision to choose the optimal solution depends on the optimality rather than the efficiency. Alternative optimal solution For the second case the analysis was performed using three types of part .
