The aim of this survey is to introduce Computer science/Petri nets specialists to the basic system level issues brought up by the development of Flexible Manufacturing and how Petri nets are used to aid the production engineers in their work. After some terminology concerning production engineering, the hierarchical decision and control level is briefly reviewed. Finally, the role and the prese...

The paper presents problems arising during developing algorithms controlling workpiece flow subsystems in a flexible manufacturing system. The necessary signals as well as the general algorithm responsible for worpiece flow in a flexible manufacturing system were defined. On the basis of a structure of a flexible manufacturing system developed at the Institute of Manufacturing Engineering of Sz...

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...

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...

This paper presents a minimalist approach to flexible manufacturing systems application interfacing using network wrappers. Through this approach, CIM system applications can be ported to distributed systems more easily. The environment of this implementation is the PUCRS flexible manufacturing cell. The main objective of the project first stage is the integration of production management appli...

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...

In the sheet metal industry, companies rely on nesting procedures to organise cut patterns of metal. Most current algorithms and methods focus solely laying out cutting only reduce material usage. However, in dynamic manufacturing environments, such as engineer order (ETO) companies, efficient has be addressed together with effective production scheduling. Therefore, reducing trade-off between ...