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    An integrated evaluation of facility location, capacity acquisition, and technology selection for designing global manufacturing strategies
    (Elsevier BV, 1992) Verter, Vedat; Dincer, Mehmet Cemal
    Emergence of global markets enhanced the emergence of global firms which have plants in different countries and implement an integrated management style. Due to the intensive competition in global markets, manufacturing performance is conceived as an important strategic weapon. Facility location, capacity acquisition and technology selection decisions constitute means to implement manufacturing strategies. We review the literature in order to contribute to a better understanding of global manufacturing strategies. As a result we observe that an integrated analysis of the location, capacity and technology decisions is vital for the design of effective global manufacturing strategies.
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    Management of product variety in cellular manufacturing systems
    (Springer, 2005) Akturk, M. S.; Yayla, H. M.
    In today's markets, non-uniform, customized products complicate the manufacturing processes significantly. In this paper, we propose a cellular manufacturing system design model to manage product variety by integrating with the technology selection decision. The proposed model determines the product families and machine groups while deciding the technology of each cell individually. Hedging against changing market dynamics leads us to the use of flexible machining systems and dedicated manufacturing systems at the same facility. In order to integrate the market characteristics in our model, we proposed a new cost function. Further, we modified a well known similarity measure in order to handle the operational capability of the available technology. In the paper, our hybrid technology approach is presented via a multi-objective mathematical model. A filtered-beam based local search heuristic is proposed to solve the problem efficiently. We compare the proposed approach with a dedicated technology model and showed that the improvement with the proposed hybrid technology approach is greater than 100% in unstable markets requiring high product varieties, regardless of the volumes of the products.