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...

In this paper is proposed a computational model (“Modelo de Seleção de Partes e Escalonamento” – MSPE) to generate a scheduling of parts in a Flexible Manufacturing System environment, considering due dates, production turns and machine tools with magazine constraints. The problems considered are the Part Selection Problem and the Scheduling Problem. The scheduling objectives are the minimizati...

The time for electronically connecting business and manufacturing has come. Advancements in e-commerce have requested that business decisions on web be the direct driving info to the corresponding manufacturing activities without human interventions. Since orders from the web may arrive in random sequence and with a range of specifications, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) may be the proper...

Future manufacturing systems will be integrated into the networks of distributed resources, and at the same time, such systems will be capable of processing both knowledge and material. It will probably be required that manufacturing systems be agile, flexible, and fault-tolerant. Petri nets (PN) and objectoriented design (OOD) are used together in order to develop the integrated agent-based FM...

Rapid prototyping of complex systems and their control strategies is an important approach in system modeling, especially in early desing stages. Naturally, these systems can be seen as a network of concurrently running communicating objects. A practical application field are flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) used in computer integrated manufacturing (CIM). A FMS consists of concurrently wor...

This paper presents modeling and optimization of two NP-hard problems in flexible manufacturing system (FMS), part type selection problem and loading problem. Due to the complexity and extent of the problems, the paper was split into two parts. The first part of the papers has discussed the modeling of the problems and showed how the real coded genetic algorithms (RCGA) can be applied to solve ...

This paper addresses the simultaneous job input sequencing and vehicle dispatching problems in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) using a single device Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS). A Branch and Bound approach based on simulation has been previously developed. However, efficient easily computable lower bounds are still required to provide solutions for small and medium size problems...

Technologies such as Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly disrupt traditional manufacturing production systems. However, there is a scarcity empirical studies synthesising evaluating impact disruptive technologies on existing This study examines AGVs applying IoT Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) through case demonstrating integration with in compan...

Batch task scheduling in cloud manufacturing has dynamic, real-time characteristic and the presence of big data concurrency and exchange requirements, while traditional workshop tasks scheduling models and algorithms can’t fit. In order to effectively save the time and reduce the cost of workshop production, an optimization model is put forward at first. And then improved cooperative particle s...

This paper deals with modeling and optimization of two NP-hard problems in production planning of flexible manufacturing system (FMS), part type selection problem and loading problem. The part type selection problem and the loading problem are strongly related and heavily influence the system’s efficiency and productivity. These problems have been modeled and solved simultaneously by using real...