Machine-Part Cell Formation by Competitive Learning Neural Network

경쟁 학습 신경회로망을 이용한 기계-부품군 형성에 관한 연구

In this paper, Fuzzy ART which is one of the competitive learing neural networks is applied to machine-part cell formation problem. A large matrix and varios types of machine-part incidence matrices, especially including bottle-neck machines, bottle-neck parts, parts shared by several cells, and machines shared by several cells are used to test the performannce of Fuzzy ART neural network as a cell formation algorithm. The result shows Fuzzy ART neral network can be efficiently applied to machine-part cell formation problem which are large, and/or have much imperfection as exceptions, bottle-neck machines, and bottle-neck parts.