Fast and dramatic changes in customer expectations, competition, and technology are creating an increasingly uncertain environment. To respond, manufacturers are seeking to enhance flexibility across the value chain. Manufacturing flexibility, a critical dimension of value chain flexibility, is the ability to produce a variety of products in the quantities that customers demand while maintainin...

The e-mass-customisation is one of tendencies in production, where which client details products using e-means. This imposes integration and advanced manufacturing-entity collaborations, aiming at adaptability to achieve product heterogeneity and response agility. An integration element of management and shop-floor systems is the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), which may integrate smart-p...

The emphasis on increasing product variety and individualization has created a strong demand for a new strategy of Mass Customization Manufacturing (MCM). A competitive and flexible manufacturing system must be developed to respond to small batches of customer demand. In this paper, problems of highly flexible process-control and logistics-management methodologies are addressed to meet MCM need...

The use of transactions in flexible manufacturing systems is expected to result in a number of advantages like increased software reliability and minimized restart times in the case of system or machine failures. Here, an architecture of a system for handling processes on machine tools under transactional protection is briefly presented. Special attention must be drawn to the component which de...

An FMS is a manufacturing system in which groups of numerically controlled machines and a material handling system work together under computer control. Scheduling is a decision making process to determine when a job is to be started in a machine and when it is to be completed. A carefully designed and efficiently managed material handling system plays an important role in planning and operatio...

Layout design and the flow of materials have a significant impact on performance of manufacturing system (garments industry) .These can help to increase productivity, reduce work in process and inventory, short production lead time, streamlines the flow of materials, cost and reduce non value added activities from the production process of waiting and transportation, which make the factory meet...