In the design of a cellular maufacturing system, clustering of a machine-part matrix is performed to decompose the graph structure to clusters (or patterns) of machine and part objects. Clusters posses unique characteristics which are inherited by objects contained in them, in the form of physical and cognitive behavior. These behavioral traits in cell objects failitiate modeling of separation of physical and cognitive components of a cellular manufacturing system is a vritual, yet enumerative approach to enterprise modeling. This modeling approach is analogous to that of design of a client/server system. In this paper, abov approach has been adopted in describing an objectoriented enterprise modeling framework with information modeling using objectoriented analysis technique for designing manufacturing cells.
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