Manufacturing systems

Manufacturing Systems

Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Quantitative Anlysis of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

A flexible manufacturing system is a high automated GT machine cell, consisting of a group of processing workstations (usually CNC machine tools), interconnected by an automated material handling and storage system, and controlled by a distributed computer system. The reason the FMS is called flexible is that it is capable of processing a variety of diffrent part styles simultaneously at the va...

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Key to future manufacturing

Integrative Cell Formation and Layout Design in Cellular Manufacturing Systems

This paper proposes a new integrative view of manufacturing cell formation and both inter-cell and intra-cell layout problems. Cells formation and their popular bi-directional linear layout are determined simultaneously through a Dynamic Programming algorithm (with the objective of minimizing the inter-cell flow cost under a cell size constraint). This Dynamic Programming algorithm is implement...

Re-entrant Manufacturing Systems

Re-entrant manufacturing systems differ from traditional manufacturing systems in the sense that a job may visit a service station more than once, at various stages of the product development cycle. Several parts at different stages of processing may be in contention for service at the same machine, which gives rise to the need to solve scheduling problems. This document surveys some of the fac...