In today’s business world, competitiveness defines as an industry leader to drive towards maximum efficiency and it is constantly at the forefront of the companies objectives. Managers across the country are striving to adopt lean manufacturing practices to improve their bottom line cellular manufacturing and it helps to build a variety of products with as little scrap as possible. Layout a fac...

Automated software manufacturing systems increase productivity by taking care of scheduling and executing manufacturing actions. Systems such as Make have been widely used. The introduction of generators into the software development process creates new challenges due to the increased complexity of the manufacturing process. When designing a system for manufacturing software using generators, t...

The turbulent environment of modern times breeds a need to ensure flexibility and responsiveness for manufacturing systems. The conventional manufacturing systems, however, are not suitable for the dynamic environment because of their rigid structure. Thus, it is necessary to establish a novel manufacturing system which is capable of proactively perceiving the environment and of autonomously ad...

Group technology (GT) is a useful way to increase productivity with high quality in flexible manufacturing systems. Cell formation (CF) is a key step in GT. It is used to design a good cellular manufacturing system that uses the similarity measure between parts and machines so that it can identify part families and machine groups. Recently, fuzzy clustering has been applied in GT because the fu...

This paper analyzes dynamic channel assignment in cellular systems where the base stations are placed at random. Using a simple dynamic channel assignment algorithm, random systems are compared to an ideal hexagonal systems. Under log-normal shadow fading the random system has capacity within 1dB of the hexagonal system. This paper looks at both the uplink and downlink and finds that performanc...

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 ...

Simulation modeling is employed to determine the effectiveness of quality index in screening machine-part matrices for the development of cellular manufacturing systems.