Analysis of Cellular Manufacturing Labour Issues With the Help of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Cellular manufacturing has received strong endorsement as an innovation that enhances quality, throughput time, inventory turnover, workflow, space utilization and flexibility. Even, the motivation for process improvements often arises naturally in manufacturing cells. The research work summarized in this paper will try to find out whether the labour issue is directly imposing any impact over cellular implementation success or not with the help of analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The work also supports the notion that implementing cellular manufacturing is not merely an issue of rearranging the factory layout, but more importantly an issue that involves and affects the organizational and human aspects of the manufacturing firm.