The main purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate dimensions of Advanced Manufacturing Systems (AMS) using SWARA and COPRAS_G Integration in the automotive industry. First, according to the research literature and 5 automotive industry experts’ opinion, six criteria include flexibility, productivity, inventory, operating cost, responsibility and reconfiguration indicated and weighted by...

Current reperfusion guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recommend that First Medical Contact to Balloon times (FMC-B) for ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) should not exceed 120 minutes. Many factors can cause delay in door to balloon times for patients suffering from STEMI. Previous studies have found that longest times for FMC-B occur if the patient presents init...

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...

In this paper, a new type of output feedback control, called a H2/H∞ finite memory control (FMC), is proposed for deterministic state space systems. Constraints such as linearity, unbiasedness property, and finite memory structure with respect to an input and an output are required in advance to design H2/H∞ FMC in addition to the performance criteria in both H2 and H∞ sense. It is shown that H...

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...