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    Group technology (GT) is a manufacturing philosophy that increases production efficiency by grouping parts with similar design and production characteristics into families. This allows companies to organize production equipment into machine cells to streamline material flow and improve efficiencies from reduced setup times and inventories. GT has evolved over the past 50+ years from early concepts in the 1920s to widespread adoption in many industries globally today, with continued development of techniques like cellular manufacturing systems.

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    GROUP TECHNOLOGY

    What is Group Technology ?

    Group technology(GT) is a manufacturing philosophy to


    increase production efficiency by grouping a variety of parts
    having similarities of shape, dimension, and/or process route.
    Thus in GT, similar parts are identified and grouped together to
    take advantages of their similarities in design and production.
    GT may be defined as a manufacturing philosophy that justifies
    batch production by capitalizing on design and/or manufacturing
    similarities among component parts.
    For example, a plant producing many parts(say, 5000 different
    parts) may be grouped into several distinct (say, 20 to 25 part
    families).Each family possesses similar design and
    manufacturing characteristics.

    This grouping philosophy results in increased


    manufacturing efficiencies.
    Efficiencies are due to reduced setup times, lower inprocess inventories, better scheduling, streamlined
    material flow, improved quality, improved tool
    control, and the use of standardized process plans.
    In many plants where GT has been implemented, the
    production equipment is arranged into machine
    groups (also known as cells) to facilitate work
    flow and parts handling.

    GENERAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF GROUP


    TECHNOLOGY

    HISTORY OF GROUP TECHNOLOGY


    Group technology has been around for about five decades. Table
    depicts a brief outline of how the GT concepts have evolved in
    20th century.
    Time
    Prior to
    1925

    Events
    F.W. Taylors scientific approach to management resulting
    in rationalization of work and its break down leads to
    greater need for standardization, inspection, and
    supervision.

    1925

    R. Flanders presented a paper in USA before the American


    Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) about a way of
    organizing manufacturing at Jones and Lamson Machine
    company, USA.

    1937

    A. Sokolovskiy of the Soviety Union described the essential


    features of group technology.
    He also proposed that parts of similar configuration be
    produced by a standard process sequence.

    1949

    A.Korling of Sweden presented a paper in paris, France on


    Group Production.

    In his paper, he described how work is decentralized into


    independent groups, each of which contains the machines
    and tooling to produce a special category of parts
    1959

    S.P. Mitrofanvo, a Russian, published a book entitled


    Scientific Principles of Group Technology.
    His book was very popular and was responsible for
    spreading the concept of GT in Soviet Union.
    In fact, his book is considered responsible for over 800
    plants in Soviet Union using GT by 1965.

    1960

    West Germany and Great Britain started serious studies into


    group technology techniques : other European countries then
    followed.
    H. Opitz, a German researcher, studied workparts
    manufactured by the German machine tool industry.
    Opitz developed the popular parts classification and
    coding system for machined parts (now, it is named by his
    name Opitz parts classification and coding system.

    1963

    Concept of GT is well recognized and widely applied in many


    industries in the Soviet Union.

    1969

    The first application of GT in USA was at New Jersey.

    1973

    Japanese government had begun sponsoring group


    technology application.

    1990+

    Concept of cellular manufacturing system (CMS) have


    evolved.

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