During the last decade, incremental forming is an innovative processing method which has been strongly investigated. Its potential as a flexible manufacturing method was noticed. This paper aims to present a comparative study of the recent worldwide developments in the field of incremental sheet forming (ISF), as a flexible method for manufacturing hollow metal parts. There are pointed out its ...

Many of industries are going to stand in the market in front of their competitor with a lot of industrial growth and good quality of product. But in this race they don’t think about the flexibility in customer relation or satisfaction as well as operational flexibility. Lean manufacturing provide the use of everything for industrial growth and Flexible manufacturing system gives the direction w...

Flexible manufacturing is a relatively new concept in manufacturing where the plant is given many different types of products in very small lot sizes to manufacture. This type of highly flexible manufacturing plant is dynamically changing at a must faster pace than traditional manufacturing plants. As such new highly adaptive planning algorithms have been studied in the attempt to utilize the f...

 This paper considers a bi-objective scheduling problem in a flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) which minimizes the maximum completion time (i.e., makespan) and maximum tardiness simultaneously. A new mathematical model is considered to reflect all aspect of the manufacturing cell. This type of scheduling problem is known to be NP-hard. To cope with the complexity of such a hard problem, a genet...

The concept of flexible manufacturing is highly appealing in gaining a competitive edge in the market by quickly adapting to the changing customer needs. Scheduling jobs on flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) is a challenging task of managing the available flexibility on the shop floor to react to the dynamics of the environment in real-time. In this paper, an agent-oriented scheduling framew...

This research will analyze and discuss the inner behavior of a flexible manufacturing cell in order to buildup its object-oriented simulation system. An object-oriented Petri Net will be built to model a flexible manufacturing cell. The objects of the object-oriented Petri Net are directly mapped from physical objects of a flexible manufacturing cell. This cell includes a robot, several machine...

A new type of software framework for error troubleshooting in flexible manufacturing systems using a frame marker device. Our framework system meant to resolve the failures originated from the human-machine interface and to generate self-training from previous experience. Keywords—flexible manufacturing cell;error troubleshooting; augmented reality; software; framework.

The paper describes the algorithm, which is developed to solve scheduling tasks in Flexible Manufacturing Systems. The algorithm is a combination of Genetic Algorithm and Coloured Petri Nets. It is proposed to use Coloured Petri Nets to tackle the encoding problem in Genetic Algorithm. The objective is to minimize the total make-span subject to different constraints obtained in Flexible Manufac...

The changes in manufacturing systems and industrial structure brought about by the development of new, computer-based flexible technologies has been a subject of growing debate during the last decade. There is a lack of solid empirical support for almost all hypotheses developed in this debate since data on the relative use of various manufacturing systems are not available for an econometric a...