Paper Title
A Review on Cellular Manufacturing System

Abstract
A big challenge of today�s batch production industries is to offer fast delivery of a variety of products to the customer. To meet this challenge, manufacturing industries are turning to cellular manufacturing system (CMS). CMS is based on group technology approach where workstations are arranged in form of manufacturing cells and part families are assigned to these cells. Each manufacturing cell performs all or most of the operations required by part families. Primary purpose of CMS is to reduce setup time, cycle time, and improve machining utilization. The important steps in CMS are identifying part families, formation of manufacturing cells and assigning part families to the cells. This paper reviews literature on cellular manufacturing system. Different approaches such as heuristic, meta-heuristics, mathematical programming methods etc. have been discussed. Keywords - Cellular manufacturing system, group technology, manufacturing cells, part families.