• Singh and Rajamani [25] provide data for a local wood manufacturer that wants to de- crease material handling by changing from a process layout to a GT layout. It is consid- ering installing a conveyor for intracellular movement of parts. It wishes to restrict interacellular movement. The machine-part matrix for the wood manufacturer is shown below. Use the direct clustering algorithm to form the cells and, if conflicts exist, pro- pose alternative approaches for resolving the conflicts.