Petri-Net is widely used in the field of modeling a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) because of its intrinsic features such as concurrency, uynchronization, conflict, and eventtriggering. But designing a Petri-Net Model for an FMS is extremely tedious and difficult for debugging. Therefore, an automatic Petri-Net generator which can generate a bug-free model for an FMS is rather useful and p...

Loading is one of the vital issues in flexible manufacturing system (FMS) production planning which deals with assignment of the necessary operations and tools among various machines in an optimal manner. Such a problem is combinatorial in nature and found to be NP-complete. In this paper, an attempt has been made to address such problems using mutation in particle swarm optimization (PSO) to a...

Scheduling plays a vital role in ensuring the effectiveness of the production control of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). The scheduling problem in advance manufacturing system such as flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is considered as dynamic as new orders may arrive intermittently day-to-day. The newly arrived orders need to be desegregated with the existing production schedule immedi...

Reconfigurable machining system (RMS) is a new class of manufacturing system recently proposed in [1], which aims at combining the high throughput of dedicated manufacturing lines (DML) with the flexibility of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). An RMS can simultaneously manufacture multiple product types with high throughput comparable to a DML, making it an ideal choice for the high-volume ...

To meet the customized requirements of customers is core orientation to achieve transition from production-centered manufacturing service-centered manufacturing. As an important part smart systems in production and operation level dominated by material flow, flexible (FMS) have make several transitions such as incorporating procedures, containing products, meeting requirements. existing researc...

One of the new computer technology for controlling production systems is an autonomous decentralized Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). The autonomous decentralized FMS aims at high production efficiency by giving self-control or decentralizing the plan, design and operation of FMS. This paper discusses the intelligent real-time decision making necessary for realizing an autonomous decentrali...

Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS),equipped with several CNC machines and Auto Guided Vehicle (AGV) based material handling systems has been designed and implemented to have the flexibility and efficiency in production process. After the implementation of FMS, various problems came such as the scheduling of the resources, such as frequent variation in the parts, tools, AGV routings, becomes a ...

A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a manufacturing system in which there is some amount of flexibility that allows the system to react in case of changes, whether predicted or unpredicted. This flexibility is generally considered to fall into two categories. The first category, machine flexibility which enables the work stations to perform different operations simultaneously on a part whe...

A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a manufacturing system in which there is some amount of flexibility to react in the case of changes, whether predicted or unpredicted. This flexibility can be divided into two categories: ١. Machine flexibility, covers the system's ability to be changed to produce new product types, and ability to change the order of operations executed on a part, and ٢....

The production planning problem of flexible manufacturing system (FMS) concerns with decisions that have to be made before an FMS begins to produce parts according to a given production plan during an upcoming planning horizon. The main aspect of production planning deals with machine loading problem in which selection of a subset of jobs to be manufactured and assignment of their operations to...