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The Application of Group Technology for CNC Manufacturing

Xinge Zhao

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Multi-variety parts and small batch production are the main production characteristic of a certain company. How to improve the productivity even to reach a large batch size production is a critical project of this company. This article uses the group technology to divide the 124 parts into 9 groups based on the CNC manufacturing process and order quantity. Then we arranged the 9 groups on 11 different CNC machines. After such grouping, the productivity was increased 26%, and the production cost was reduced 20%.

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Multi-variety parts and small batch production are the main production characteristic of a certain company. How to improve the productivity even to reach a large batch size production is a critical project of this company. This article uses the group technology to divide the 124 parts into 9 groups based on the CNC manufacturing process and order quantity. Then we arranged the 9 groups on 11 different CNC machines. After such grouping, the productivity was increased 26%, and the production cost was reduced 20%.

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Multi-variety parts and small batch production are the main production characteristic of a certain company. How to improve the productivity even to reach a large batch size production is a critical project of this company. This article uses the group technology to divide the 124 parts into 9 groups based on the CNC manufacturing process and order quantity. Then we arranged the 9 groups on 11 different CNC machines. After such grouping, the productivity was increased 26%, and the production cost was reduced 20%.

Key concepts: Manufacturing engineering, Group technology, Productivity, Production (economics), Batch production, Variety (cybernetics), Process (computing), Advanced manufacturing

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