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Group Technology
Group technology (GT) is a manufacturing philosophy that seeks to
improve productivity by grouping parts and products with similar
characteristics into families and forming production cells with a group of
dissimilar machines and processes.
The group of similar parts is known as part family and the group of
machineries used to process an individual part family is known as machine
cell. It is not necessary for each part of a part family to be processed by
every machine of corresponding machine cell.
Group Technology
Group technology begun by grouping parts into families, based on
their attributes (Geometry, manufacturing process ).
Geometric classification of families is normally based on size and
shape, while production process classification is based on the type,
sequence, and number of operations. The type of operation is
determined by such things as the method of processing, the method
of holding the part, the tooling.
There are three methods that can be used to form part families:
Manual visual inspection
Production flow analysis
Classification and coding
Manual visual inspection involves arranging a set of parts into
groups by visually inspecting the physical characteristics of the
parts.
Part Family 1
Part Family 2
Production flow
analysis
Example #1
Consider a problem of 5 machines and 6 parts. Try to group them by using
Rank Order Clustering Algorithm.
Part Number
Machine ID
A
1
1
1
1
1
D
E
B
C
1
1
Step 1:
Decimal
equivalent
Part Numbers
B.
Wt:
25
24
23
22
21
20
Machine ID
B
C
1
1
1
1
Rank
23+21 = 10
24+23 = 24
25+22=36
24+23+21 =
26
25+22+20=37
Step 2:
Part Number
1
Machine ID
6
1
Step 3:
Part Number
B. WT. 1
Machine ID
Decimal
equivalent
Rank
24
23
22
21
20
6
1
Back at Step 1:
Part Number
1
B Wt:
25
24
D. Eqv
6
23
22
21
20
1
Order stays the same: STOP!
Rank
25+24+ 23=56
25+24= 48
22+21+ 20 = 7
22+21=6
22+20=5
Example #2
Part Number
1
A
2
1
Machine ID
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Example #2
Step 1: Assign binary weight and calculate a decimal weight for each row
Part Number
1
2 3 4
6
Binary wt. 2
25 24 23
22
21
20
Machine ID
41
20
105
82
40
1
1
1
1 1
Equivalent
Rank
decimal value
Example #2
Step 3: Reorder the matrix according to rank
Part Number
Machine ID
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Example #2
Step 4: Assign binary weight and calculate a decimal weight for each Column
Part Number
1
C 16
D 8
Binary wt.
Machine ID
A 4
1
1
1
1
E 2
B 1
Equ. Decimal
Value
24
20
1
11
Rank
22
1
3
10
20
Example #2
Step 5: Reorder the matrix according to rank
Part Number
Machine ID
1
1
Example #2
Repeat Step 1&2: Assign binary weight and calculate a decimal weight for each row
Part Number
1 4 2 7 3
Machine ID
6
Binary wt. 2
25 24 23
1 1 1
22
1 1 1
B
Order stays the same:
1
1
21
20
120
70
56
39
Equivalent
Rank
decimal value
Example #2
Repeat Step 4 & 5
Equ. Decimal
Value
24
22
Part Number
2
7
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
20 20 11
Rank
Binary wt.
Machine ID
C
D
A
E
B
16
8
4
2
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
10
1
1
3
Voids
Example #2
Exceptional
parts
Part Number
Machine ID
1
1
No. of Voids: 5
No. of bottleneck machines: 2(Machines D & E)
Duplicate machines
Part Number
Part Number
No. of Voids: 5
1 1 1
D 1
1 1
1 1 1
1 1 1
1
Machine ID
Machine ID
C 1
4 2 7 3 6 5
1
1
Part Number
1
1 1 1
D 1
1 1
1 1 1
1 1 1
1
Machine ID
Machine ID
C 1
4 2 7 3 6 5
C
B
D
1
1
1
1
No. of Voids: 5
No. of Voids: 3
Step 1:
Decimal
equivalent
Part Numbers
B.
Wt:
25
24
23
22
21
20
Machine ID
B
C
1
1
1
1
Rank
23+21 = 10
24+23 = 24
25+22=36
24+23+21 =
26
25+22+20=37
Step 1:
Decimal
equivalent
Part Numbers
B.
Wt:
25
24
23
22
21
20
Machine ID
D
E
1
1
1
1
Rank
23+21 = 10
24+23 = 24
22 +20=5
24+23+21 = 26
25+ 22 +20=37
Step 3:
Part Number
B. WT. 6
Machine ID
24
23
22
21
20
1
1
Decimal
equivalent
23+22=
2 = 16
12
23+22+ 24+20=
21=14 17
24+21
=18
24+20
=17
Rank
Back at Step 1:
Part Number
6
B.
Wt:
Machine ID
25
1
1
24
23
3
22
2
21
Rank
25+24+ 23=56
22+21+ 20 = 7
22+21= 6
22+ 20 = 5
24+23= 24
5
20
D. Eqv
Back at Step 1:
Part Number
Machine ID
B.
WT.
24
23
22
21
20
Decimal
equivalent
24 =
16
22+21
=6
22+20
=5
Rank
Part Number
4
B.
Wt:
25
6
24
Machine ID
23
3
22
2
21
1
Order stays the same: STOP!
Rank
25+24+23=56
25+24= 48
22+21+20 = 7
22+21 = 6
22+20= 5
5
20
D. Eqv
Clustering Methods
Using Process Similarity methods:
Create Machine Part Matrices
Compute machine pair-wise similarity Coefficient
comparisons:
Example:
Part Number
Machine ID
A
1
Sij
ij
xij
x jj
here:
xij is # of parts (in matrix) visiting
1
1
D
E
B
C
1
1
jj
1
x
ij
S AB
.33 S
ij
1 2
xij x jj
Part Number
0
S AC
0
1 2 3 4 5 6
04
A
1
1
2
S AD
.67
B
1 1
2 1
C 1
1
D
1 1
1
E 1
1
1
Machine ID
Continuing:
Sij
ij
xij
x jj Part Number
Machine ID
1 2 3 4 5 6
A
1 1
C 1
D
E 1
1
1 1
1
1
.33
AC
AD
AE
BC
BD
BE
CD
CE
DE
0.67
0.67
.67
0.67
0.33
0
Dendrogram
Monocode of Fig. 1:
A-1-1-B-2