Samet TÜRKMEN-030060143-1st week answers

Manufacturing Cell:( technology)

          

            Old:

A manufacturing cell is a small unit, consisting of one to several workstation. A workstation usually contains either one machine (called a single-machine cell) or several machines (called a group-machine cell) with each machine performing a different operation on the part. The machines can be modified, retooled and regrouped for diffrent product lines within the same family of parts.

(Kalpakjian S., Schmid S.R. 5th Ed., pg.1219,)

         

            New: (better)

          A more comprehensive definition of a manufacturing cell points to a manufacturing system that groups and organized the manufacturing resources, such as people, machines, tools, buffers, and handling devices, dedicated to the manufacture of a part family , or the assembly of a family of products, with identical or very similar manufacturing requirements. Therefore important economies of scale can be obtained by producing for economies of scope, i.e. for a variety of products.

( Ferreira J. P. E-manufacturing: business paradigms and supporting technologies , p.162 )