Application of principal component analysis in machine-part cell formation

The present paper applies Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for grouping of machines and parts so that the part families could be processed in the cells formed by those associated machines. An incidence matrix with binary entries has been chosen to apply this methodology. After performing the eigen...

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Main Authors: Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Pranab K Dan, Sitanath Mazumdar, Manojit Chattopadhyaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2012-08-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2012_48.pdf