Capacitated Cell Formation

The larger problem of such type needs the consideration of part demand volumes, machine capability, multiple machines by all type and alternate process plans, etc. Conversely, all these issues could not be adequately handled along with the neural network alone, and these demand the other tools application as like: expert system or decision support framework. A neural network based expert system considers further constraints as like: duplicate machines of each type and capability constraints. A three layered network is regarded as forms an interesting adaptation of ART networks for that constrained grouping.