Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are distinguished by the use of computer control in place of the hard automation usually found in transfer lines. The high investment required for a FMS and the potential of FMS as a strategic competitive tool make it attractive to engage in research in this area. This paper presents a review of literature concerning the operations aspect of FMS. Articles em...

The aim of this paper is to present a hybrid group decision model for evaluating flexible manufacturing systems(FMSs), in which the information about attribute weights is completely unknown, and the attribute values take the form of triangular fuzzy numbers. In this proposed methodology, the voting method is adopted to calculate the attribute weights by aggregating the decision-makers’ attitude...

Flexible manufacturing systems as technological and automated structures have a high complexity for scheduling. The decision-making process is made difficult with interruptions that may occur in the system these problems increase to define an optimal schedule. research proposes three-stage hybrid algorithm allows rescheduling of operations FMS. novelty presented two approaches: first integratio...

The paper presents a software package developed fo the integration of a Flexible Manufacturing Syste (FMS) with the CAD department. The software package is able to make the informational link between a CAD system, a CAM program and the control system of CNC machines (file transfer and

Material handling equipment plays an important role in the design and development of advance manufacturing systems (AMS) like flexible manufacturing systems. Material handling equipments affects the performance and productivity of these advance manufacturing systems. So it becomes very important to select a right kind of equipment while designing the high end manufacturing systems like FMS. In ...

While designing a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) for production requirements, most engineers think of cost and time reduction. No one wants an over-equipped FMS, but rather one with enough capabilities to do the job. An FMS allows mixing different production set -ups in machines and provides mid-range to highrange production rates. If such complexity is not used to a high degree, the FMS m...

In the last years, increase of data availability together with enhanced computation capabilities empowered researchers to conceive production planning and control methods real-time inputs. Literature is rich techniques for using simulation take decisions online. However, it generally impractical test these approaches on real systems, experiments digital instances are limited because they do not...

Due to the ever-increasing computational capabilities and the increasing use of automated manufacturing, distributed large-scale, discrete-event manufacturing system controllers are being proposed and designed. Currently there is a large amount of research in the area of simulation of manufacturing systems, scheduling and some research in the control of automated manufacturing plants. Even inte...

In this article a new Control-Supervisory architecture of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) is presented. We are interested particularly in construction and modelling of FMS robust control of flow-shop type to time constraints. Other than the control of production system, the goal is to observe and interpreted the robustness of resources and of manufacturing system. The P-time Petri Nets whi...

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 ...