Material Flow Modelling in Mechatronic Manufacturing System

Modelling and design of flow manufacturing system for SMEs

This paper describes a simple and deterministic method for modelling and designing a flow manufacturing system, especially well suited for SMEs. The paper covers five themes: A brief review the history of flow manufacturing, a comparison of the flow manufacturing approach with other existing improvement approaches, a proposal of crucial design principles for flow manufacturing, a method for sim...

Modelling and Simulation of a Material Flow System

Modern production control systems, e.g. a factory for cars or any other complex industrial good face two major problems. First, the systems need to become more decentralised to increase their availability. Second, the markets force the demand of smaller lot sizes and more flexibility to produce different goods in parallel. Nowadays, re-configuration of production control systems consists of two...

Material transport system design in manufacturing

Modelling of Optimal Design of Manufacturing Cell Layout Considering Material Flow and Closeness Rating Factors

Developing a group of machine cells and their corresponding part families to minimize the inter-cell and intra-cell material flow is the basic objective of the designing of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS). Afterwards achieving a competent cell layout is essential in order to minimize the total inter-cell part travels, which is principally noteworthy. There are plentiful articles of CMS li...

A framework for material flow assessment in manufacturing systems

Improving material efficiency is widely accepted as one of the key challenges facing manufacturers in the future. Increasing material consumption is having detrimental impacts on the environment as a result of their extraction, processing and disposal. It is clear that radical improvements in material efficiency are required to avoid further environmental damage and sustain the manufacturing se...