This paper analyzes the role of real exchange rate in determining Japanese FDI in China. Using the data of Japanese direct investment in China’s nine major manufacturing sectors from 1989 to 2000, the paper conducts regression analysis with both time series and panel data. The empirical results show that there exists a significantly positive correlation between the bilateral real exchange rate ...

One of the most important problems in production planning of flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is machine tool selection and operation allocation problem that directly influences the production costs and times .In this paper minimizing machining cost, set-up cost and material handling cost as a multi-objective problem in flexible manufacturing systems environment are considered. We present a ...

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In modern manufacturing systems, two developments are paramount: flexible automation computer systems controlling and monitoring the physical processes, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) direct data sharing among production control systems and the engineering and administrative systems that support them. The resulting data systems engineering task is to provide access from many system...

In this work an approach to analyze non-deterministic execution plans for flexible manufacturing systems is presented. This approach consists of modeling the system using coloured Petri nets and then, by simulation, discover the possible executions for the system. After, model checking is used to prove that the model behavior do not deviate from the planning. Based on this approach it is possib...

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This paper focuses on a method for synthesizing deadlock avoidance controllers in flexible manufacturing systems. The modelling process of a supervisory policy that enforces liveness is realized with Petri nets. Petri nets are a popular modelling paradigm for a wide class of discrete event systems. Our supervisory policy is based on the next two steps in modelling process: a) A bottom-up approa...

A tool for performance evaluation will be presented in this paper. The tool is named BAL and is based on the timed process algebra BTC incorporating resources as well. BAL begins by first making the syntactic analysis of the system specification, and then draws up its relevant transition graph by applying the rules of the operational semantics and solves a performance optimization problem relev...

The paper describes the concepts that must be considered in order to achieve a flexible manufacturing system that allows introduction of new products and new resources without total reprogramming of the control system. The basic structure of a resource model is presented and also guidelines for achieving a generic resource model. The description of how to manufacture the products is also essent...