Research on Model and Mechanism of Autonomous Management for Cellular Manufacturing

Qingshan Zhang, Xiang Li

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DOI: 10.4236/ib.2011.32016                

Abstract

International Engineering Consortium predicted that cellular manufacturing would become the main production model of manufacturing enterprises in the future. Based on elaborating the basic concepts, this paper proposes organizational forms, autonomous management models and coordination mechanism of cellular manufacturing, and takes expected return of two production cells as a coordination example, then gives coordination process and coordination strategy of cellular manufacturing, so as to expand production management theory and provide reference to cellular manufacturing enterprises.

Keywords

Cellular Manufacturing, Autonomous Management, Management Model, Coordination Mechanism

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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