this article is arranged based on a research plan which its goals is evaluation of the possibility of applying flexible human resource structure in industrial organizations. in this research, applying conditions of just in time (j.i.t) and flexible manufacturing systems (f.m.s) have brought up as a pioneer flexible movements in industrial units and based on based two phenomenon, the nescessity ...

Nowadays most of manufacturing firms in accordance with continuous changes in the market and the today’s competitiveness world are competing for meeting demand, increasing quality and decreasing costs. For reaching these goals, it is necessary to select a suitable flexible manufacturing system (FMS) for the most of manufactures. The aim of this paper is applying a method for evaluating the flex...

During the past half century, market competition has been very intense and production companies have been trying to find more efficient ways to manufacture their products. While during the period 1960 to 1970 manufacturing cost was the primary concern, later it was followed by product quality and delivery speed. New strategies had to be formulated by companies to adapt to the environment in whi...

In this paper, requirements for design of high autonomy manufacturing systems are stipulated. Effods towards amalgamating the autonomous architecture and its real world component (i.e., a flexible manufacturing system) are presented. Planning and control principles derived from discrete event modeling techniques are summarized.

A real time methodology with full routing flexibility is used for minimizing mean flow time in FMS. The combination of flexible alternative machines and flexible alternative operation sequences are used to obtain the full routing flexibility in flexible manufacturing system. Full routing flexibility offers decreasing cost, reducing waiting time and increasing efficiency. This paper presents an ...

market is forcing car manufacturers rethink their strategic approach to manufacturing. In order to be competitive, companies need to manufacture variety of new car models at the lowest cost. This requires manufacturing systems to be flexible to accommodate product variations and economically viable. Automotive industry has been traditionally highly automated and not particularly flexible in ter...

Flexible Manufacturing System provides many alternative machines and conveying paths to manufacture a given part. Thus control of such complex systems must be bent, via an effective Production Information System (PIS), to a powerful Decision Making System (DMS) which has to compute the best alternatives in real-time. This paper presents such a Production Information System (PIS) for Flexible Ma...

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...

This paper describes the development of an agent-based framework for the intelligent control of flexible manufacturing systems. An FMS is a complex manufacturing system, in which the control system is responsible for the planning, control and monitoring functions. Traditionally, manufacturing systems are commonly established with hierarchical control architecture. This approach is not flexible ...

Determining the production capacity of flexible manufacturing systems is a very important issue in the design of such systems. We propose an approach for determining the production capacity (i.e., the maximum production rate) of a flexible manufacturing system with several part types, dedicated pallets, and fixed production ratios among the different part types. We show that the problem reduces...