For the continuous manufacturing processes, the integrated optimization for production planning, scheduling, and dynamic optimization usually leads to profit improvement and better overall performance. The challenge is that the integrated optimization is often a large scale problem which is difficult to solve. To deal with the computational difficulty of the integrated problem, we first propose...

One of the key problems in the area of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) design is a problem of proper design of manufacturing subsystem and especially the machine tools selection. Although the problem seems to be simple, in fact it is difficult to solve because of large variety and number of parameters and also brief foredesign which are highly influential for the decision. This study shows...

In today’s manufacturing community, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are becoming important. There is a global trend towards flexible manufacturing systems with an increasing number of countries competing for a share of the world market. FMS are increasingly required for companies to meet the demand for high quality, reasonably priced products. FMS allow a manufacturer to quickly change pro...

This article presents an optimization methodology of batch production processes assembled by shared resources which rely on a mapping of state-events into time-events allowing in this way the straightforward use of a well consolidated scheduling policies developed for manufacturing systems. A technique to generate the timed Petri net representation from a continuous dynamic representation (Diff...

The production scheduling process in manufacturing systems is a complex problem in which finding a suitable production scheduling can extremely increase the effectiveness of highly flexible production processes. Nevertheless, this high flexibility makes the production scheduling and acquisition of relevant data quite complicated. Therefore, there is a strong demand for a universal and flexible ...

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...

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...

This research will analyze and discuss the inner behavior of a flexible manufacturing cell in order to buildup its object-oriented simulation system. An object-oriented Petri Net will be built to model a flexible manufacturing cell. The objects of the object-oriented Petri Net are directly mapped from physical objects of a flexible manufacturing cell. This cell includes a robot, several machine...