Ports, regions and manufacturing systems: Automobile manufacturing in Kyushu, Japan

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...

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...

Manufacturing Systems

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Key to future manufacturing

Global Manufacturing Virtual Network and its Position in Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing system becomes increasingly complex in order to gain more competitive advantages in manufacturing globalisation. This paper seeks to gain a better understanding the practical and theoretical issues in collaborative manufacturing between companies in a value creation network. It proposes a conceptualisation for the Global Manufacturing Virtual Network (GMVN). It suggests that the G...