The importance in promoting, sustaining industries, manufacturing systems and economy through reliability measurement has become an area of interest. The profit of a system may be enhanced using highly reliable structural design of the system or subsystem of higher reliability. On improving the reliability and availability of a system, the production and associated profit will also increase. Re...

To enhance agility and quick responding to customers' demand, manufacturing processes are rearrenged according to different systems. The efficient execution of a manufacturing system depends on various factors. Among them, cell design and human issue are the pivotal ones. The proposed model designs cellular manufacturing systems using three objective functions from three different perspectives,...

in this paper, we present a simulated annealing (sa) and a genetic algorithm (ga) based on heuristics for scheduling problem of jobs in virtual cellular manufacturing systems. a virtual manufacturing cell (vmc) is a group of resources that is dedicated to the manufacturing of a part family. although this grouping is not reflected in the physical structure of the manufacturing system, but machin...

This study is conducted to developed innovative production planning and control strategies to manufacturing industries so as to improve production performance and competitiveness of basic metal sectors Though the study was conducted through field observation and questioner used as primary data and literature review on research articles, books, and electronic-sources which used as secondar...

Manufacturing flexibility is one of the key determinants of development of modern production systems. The article presents the importance of flexibility factor in the process of manufacturing systems development during the 20 th century. In particular, craft manufacturing, dedicated manufacturing systems (DMS) and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) were characterized. Finally, actual problems...

the aim of the present study is to conduct a survey of the implementation of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems in iranian manufacturing and service companies. the focus of this survey is on some aspects of implementation of these systems including motivations, obstacles and problems, results obtained from implementation of these systems, criteria for sele...

This paper presents an overview of a neutral reference architecture for integrating distributed manufacturing simulation systems with each other, with other manufacturing software applications, and with manufacturing data repositories. Other manufacturing software applications include, but are not limited to, systems used to: 1) design products, 2) specify processes, 3) engineer manufacturing s...