Asian Review of Mechanical Engineering (ARME) is a half-yearly international peer-reviewed journal of Mechancial Engineering. One of the objectives of this journal is to disseminate knowledge on various research issues connected with the topics include, but are not limited to:

Statics and dynamics
Strength of materials and solid mechanics
Instrumentation and measurement
Thermodynamics, heat transfer, energy conversion, and HVAC
Combustion, automotive engines, fuels
Fluid mechanics and fluid dynamics
Mechanism design (including kinematics and dynamics)
Manufacturing engineering, technology, or processes
Hydraulics and pneumatics
Engineering design
Product design
Mechatronics and control theory
Material Engineering
Design engineering, Drafting, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) (including solid modeling), and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Due to the rigidness of cellular manufacturing system (CMS), it lacks adaptability which is the ability to respond to changing products, product mix and production capacity, hence loosing competency in dynamic manufacturing environment. Reconfigurable machine tools (RMTs) are the great means to propel flexibility in CMS to enable a high degree of system responsiveness to frequent changes in cost effective way. In this paper, RMTs are used to exert lean characteristics in CMS by inheriting the desirable properties of RMTs. A heuristic is developed for embedding lean characteristics into machine cell design. The emphasis of this research is the formation of machine cells driven by specific product mix. An application example is included to illustrate the cellular model.