Design of a group technology plant and its associated production control system

The paper presented here demonstrates by refernce to a practical example, how a simple methodology for the flow system design of a GT cell was developed. The paper further discusses the intimate relationship between the cell layout and its associated production control system. It is argued that it is essential to consider GT as a management system in which the arrangement of machines into manufaturing cells is only one fundamental step, but does not itself yield the potential savings obtainable from a GT system.