Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is the one, which can be changed or adapted quickly to manufacture different components or products at different volumes of product. Flexible manufacturing system includes – a set of flexible machines, an automatic transport system and a sophisticated database with decision support system, to decide at each instant what is to be done on which machine. The obj...

Holonic Manufacturing Systems have emerged over the last seven years as strategy for manufacturing control system design. A new approach called Holonic ComponentBased Architecture (HCBA) to establish a manufacturing control system as to cope with rapid changes in manufacturing environment is presented in this paper. Intelligent building blocks in terms of resource and product are proposed to dy...

The flexible manufacturing system (FMS) has attracted substantial amount of research effort during the last twenty years. Most of the studies address the issues of flexibility, productivity, cost, and so forth. The impact of flexible lines on product quality is less studied. This paper intends to address this issue by applying a Markov model to evaluate quality performance of a flexible manufac...

Manufacturing systems, where the materials which are handled are mainly composed of discrete entities, for example parts that are machined and/or assembled, are called discrete manufacturing systems. The rapid development of industrial techniques makes the manufacturing systems larger and more complex, in which system control is divided into a hierarchy of control levels: planning, scheduling, ...

In the sheet metal industry, companies rely on nesting procedures to organise cut patterns of metal. Most current algorithms and methods focus solely laying out cutting only reduce material usage. However, in dynamic manufacturing environments, such as engineer order (ETO) companies, efficient has be addressed together with effective production scheduling. Therefore, reducing trade-off between ...