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...

Flexible Machining Cells (FMC) have become very popular in many manufacturing environments due to the reduction in set-up down-time using off-line set-up. A similar procedure is not yet available for assembly cells. This arises from the need for accurate positioning of parts from bulk storage containers prior to assembly. Complex fixturing and orientating devices are often required for correct ...

A new type of software framework for error troubleshooting in flexible manufacturing systems using a frame marker device. Our framework system meant to resolve the failures originated from the human-machine interface and to generate self-training from previous experience. Keywords—flexible manufacturing cell;error troubleshooting; augmented reality; software; framework.

this paper presented a mixed integer programming for integrated scheduling and process planning. the presented process plan included some orders with precedence relations similar to multiple traveling salesman problem (mtsp), which was categorized as an np-hard problem. these types of problems are also called advanced planning because of simultaneously determining the appropriate sequence and m...