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Group technology is an approach to organizing manufacturing which can be applied in any industry where a small batch variety prodution is used.The basic concept of group technology is relatively simple .It is the identification and bringing togher related or similar parts and processed, to make advantage of the similarities which exit,during all stages of design and manufacture.

GT is based on the fact that small lots of different parts can be produced more economically, if they are grouped and scheduled for production according to the common characteristics.

Defining group technology

It is an approach to the organization of work in which organizational units are relatively independent groups, each reponsible for the production of a given family of products.

A group is a combination of set of workers and a set of machines and others facilities laid out in one reserve area, which is desisned to complete a specified set of products.

A family is the set of products produced by a group.