Cellular manufacturing

Cellular manufacturing, a model for workplace design, is an integral part of just-in-time manufacturing and lean manufacturing, with additional applications in administrative processes. The cell, or work cell, has roots in group technology, which seeks to align process flows by families of component parts or, sometimes, families of target customers (A primary reference for this discussion on cellular manufacturing comes from a 770-page book by Hyer and Wemmerlöv devoted to the topic.)