Cellular layout is a facility arrangement where machines are organized to produce specific families of parts, enhancing the flow of production and flexibility. This layout can reduce inventory, labor costs, and improve operational efficiency, while challenges include restructuring existing systems and addressing equipment and management issues. Implementing combined cellular manufacturing further increases adaptability and productivity by optimizing resources across neighboring cells.

1. Cellular layout

2. Cellular lay out
A facility layout where machines are arranged in a work
center in the general order that they are required to produce
families of parts or one product family. Also called product-
process layout.

3. Cell layout
1) In a cell layout, the transformed resources
entering the operation move into a cell in
which all the transforming resources it requires
in located.
2) After being processed in the cell, the
transformed resource may move to a different
cell in the operation or it may be a finished
product or service.
3) Each cell may be arranged in either a process
or product layout.
4) The cell type layout attempts to bring order to
the complex flow seen in a process layout.

4. The ground floor plan of a department store
showing the sports goods shop-within-a-shop
retail ‘cell’
Sports shop Menswear
Women’s clothes
Luggage
and gifts
Confectionery,
newspaper,
magazines and
stationery
Books
and
videos Footwear
Perfume
& jewellery
Elevators
Entrance

5. What is Cellular Manufacturing?
• An approach that requires
Equipment and workstations
to produce a product
• This approach facilitates
continuous flow of production
and provide flexibility to produce
variety of low demand products

6. Improving Layouts Using Work
Cells
• Traditional Layout
• Straight lines make it hard to balance tasks because work
may not be divided evenly
• Cellular Layout
• Improved layout - in U shape, workers have better
access. Four cross-trained workers were reduced.

7. Types of Operations
One Piece Flow
• Handling items one at a time eliminates wastes inherent in
batch production and enables a balanced flow of work.
Multi-Process Handling
• Multi-Process Handling increases flexibility in the process and
avoids the inefficiencies inherent in traditional manufacturing
arrangements
Multi-functional Workforce
• A multi-functional workforce is critical to enable flexible operations
where the range of tasks performed by a given worker can be varied
to match demand

8. Challenges While Implementation
• The biggest challenge when implementing
cellular manufacturing in a company is dividing
the entire manufacturing system into cells.
• The issues may be conceptually divided in the
"hard" issues of equipment, such as material
flow and layout, and the "soft" issues of
management, such as upskilling and corporate
culture.

9. Several Operators in Series
• In a process with several operators, work is divided in small
operations, so
• that a group of operators team together to work at the same
speed,
• dividing the work load among them.

10. Combined Cellular
Manufacturing
The combined cellular manufacturing equipment layout
further increases flexibility to adapt to demand
changes and maintain productivity through
leveraging resources of neighboring cells

11. Advantages of Work Cell(Cellular)
 Reduced work-in-process inventory
 Less floor space required
 Reduced raw material and finished goods inventory
 Reduced direct labor
 Heightened sense of employee participation
 Increased use of equipment and machinery
 Reduced investment in machinery and equipment