The efficiency of transportation system management plays an important role in the planning and operation efficiency of flexible manufacturing systems. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) are part of diversified and advanced techniques in the field of material transportation which have many applications today and act as an intermediary between operating and storage equipment and are routed and contr...

| Rapid Prototyping of complex systems is an important approach in system modeling. Naturally, such systems can be seen as a network of concurrently running communicating objects. An example of such a system in computer integrated manufacturing are exible manufacturing systems (FMS). A FMS consists of concurrently working machines which are connected by a computerized material handling system. ...

A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is an integrated system of computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools, each having an automatic tool interchange capability, and all connected by an automated material handling system. One or more computers control most real-time functions. Flexible manufacturing is realized to be an efficient alternative to conventional manufacturing that allows s...

In this paper, the problem of batch scheduling in a flexible flow shop environment is studied. It is assumed that machines in some stages are able to process a number of jobs simultaneously. The applications of this problem can be found in various industries including spring and wire manufacturing and in auto industry. A mixed integer programming formulation of the problem is presented and it i...

In this paper, the problem of batch scheduling in a flexible flow shop environment is studied. It is assumed that machines in some stages are able to process a number of jobs simultaneously. The applications of this problem can be found in various industries including spring and wire manufacturing and in auto industry. A mixed integer programming formulation of the problem is presented and it i...

During the past several years, there have been a significant number of researches conducted in the area of semiconductor final test scheduling problems (SFTSP). As specific example of simultaneous multiple resources scheduling problem (SMRSP), intelligent manufacturing planning and scheduling based on meta-heuristic methods, such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), and Particle...

This paper presents the details of a simulation study carried out for analyzing the impact of scheduling rules that control part launching and tool request selection decisions of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) operating under tool movement along with part movement policy. Two different scenarios have been investigated with respect to the operation of FMS. In scenario 1, the facilities su...

Flexible manufacturing Systems are automated manufacturing systems which have job shop flexibility and flow shop efficiency. One of the major concerns in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is the minimization of the total flow of material through the system. Facility layout design deals with the arrangement of machines, in order to minimise the total flow of parts in the system. The commonly u...

This contribution presents a novel approach to address the scheduling of resource-constrained flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). It deals with several critical features that are present in many FMS environments in an integrated way. The proposal consists in a constraint programming (CP) formulation that simultaneously takes into account the following sub-problems: (i) machine loading, (ii) ...

Abstract Distributed manufacturing is the mainstream model to accelerate production. However, heterogeneous production environment makes engineer hard find optimal scheduling. This work investigates energy-efficient distributed permutation flow scheduling problem with flexible machine speed (DHPFSP-FMS) minimizing makespan and energy consumption simultaneously. In DHPFSP-FMS, local search misle...