Developing control and integration software for flexible manufacturing systems

Developing control and integration software for flexible manufacturing systems

The slow growth of computer-integrated manufacturing is attributed to the complexity of designing and implementing their control and integration software. This article expands on a methodology for designing and implementing this software that was introduced in [16]. The goal of this methodology is to build flexible and reusable control and integration software for computer-integrated manufactur...

Systematic Verification of Flexible Manufacturing Control Software

Increasing the performance and flexibility of automated manufacturing systems is a key success factor for today’s production companies. Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) have proven to be particularly suitable in this regard since they support small lot sizes and high numbers of variants at the same time. Among the most important problems of FMS are the huge expenditure of time and the high ...

Control and Scheduling Software for Flexible Manufacturing Cells

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...

Fuzzy Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

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