International Journal of Engineering and Technology

This paper proposes CPLEX solver for the Cell Formation (CF) problem of the cellular manufacturing system. The CF problem deals with the assignment of parts and machines to cell to optimize the required objectives. A mathematical model is developed for the CF model with the objective to minimize the sum of the costs of scheduling, cross-flow, inter-cell movement and machine duplication. The mathematical model is coded in CPLEX Optimisation Programming Language (OPL), a mathematical programming language of IBM ILOG CPLEX optimization studio and illustrated with a literature problem. The CPLEX solver provides optimal solution to the CF problem in a reasonable computational time.