This paper, along with that of Part I (“A decision support system for elaborating the master production scheduling”), constitutes part of a research project that aims to integrate all production scheduling activities in a semi-repetitive cellular manufacturing environment. In the paper of Part I we clarify what we mean by semi-repetitive cellular manufacturing, and in so doing, we make a production systems classification and a cellular manufacturing taxonomy. The proposed system was conceptualized and computationally implemented in three modules (product, components and operations levels). The first level is treated in the paper of Part I and the other two levels are treated in this paper.
production control; production scheduling; ordering system; operations scheduling; cellular manufacturing
