A comparison of manufacturing and disassembly systems from a cellular configuration point of view

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Abstract:The main aim of this research is to analyze the differences between cellular manufacturing and cellular disassembly systems. While doing so, this paper makes a relevant contribution. It proposes a mathematical programming formulation for robust manufacturing and disassembly cell formation problems. A solution method based on the Tabu Search schema is adapted for both problems, and will be used for the comparison analysis. The fact that the Tabu Search algorithm has been effective in different cell formation approaches gives us confidence in its reliability, and although alternative metaheuristic approaches may be developed in the future, we opted for adapting this algorithm to the problem at hand, since our first aim is to obtain data to analyze the difference in the design of both types of production environments and not to develop new approaches to the cell formation problem. A full factorial design study is proposed in order to appraise the significance of controllable factors in cellular designs. Four dependent variables were considered in the