“…Table 1 identifies several countries which have implemented GT and refers the reader to several related studies and journal articles. (Parry, 1975) Canada (Denny, and May, 1978) China (Jiang, Wang, and Sun, 1993) Hong Kong (Chen, 1983) India (Kumar, 1987) Malaysia (Fong, 1979) Mexico (Nuno, Shunk, Padillo, and Beltran, 1993) United States (Finnie, 1988) (Malecki, 1985) (Lowinger, 1975) The GT systems implemented in each of these countries are inherently different, mainly in the area of coding and classification subsystems where many options for categorizing parts are possible. At the most fundamental level, however, all GT systems have in common that they are based on one of three sets of attributes:…”