In recent years, designing “energy-aware manufacturing scheduling and control systems” has become more and more complex due to the increasing volatility and unpredictability of energy availability, supply and cost, and thus requires the integration of highly reactive behavior in control laws. The aim of this paper is to propose a Potential Fields-based flexible manufacturing control system that...

Nowadays most of manufacturing firms in accordance with continuous changes in the market and the today’s competitiveness world are competing for meeting demand, increasing quality and decreasing costs. For reaching these goals, it is necessary to select a suitable flexible manufacturing system (FMS) for the most of manufactures. The aim of this paper is applying a method for evaluating the flex...

A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) can offer important advantages in terms of more efficient production, shorter throughput times, lower stocks and a higher quality of work. To realize these advantages, a well designed manufacturing planning and control system (MPCS) is a key condition. In practical cases, these planning and control systems are often based on a hierarchical decision structur...

The design and use of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) involve some intricate operations research problems. FMS design problems include, for example, determining the appropriate number of machine tools of each type, the capacity of the material handling system, and the size of buffers. FMS planning problems include the determination of which parts should be simultaneously machined, the opt...

Assigning operations to feasible and suitable machine-tool combination is one of the significant problems in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). This assignment affects on the total production costs and thus selecting the best combination is very significant for the system. This paper considers a multi-objective problem that minimizes the machining cost, setup cost and material handling cost...

This paper exploits the interactions between the machine scheduling and the scheduling of Material Handling System in a given Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) layout with an objective of minimization of makespan and to study the overall feasibility of generation of optimal simultaneous schedules. A heuristic scheduling algorithm is developed which takes into account both machine and vehicle ...

For a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) or Resource Allocation System (RAS) which can be decomposed into a number of synchronized choice nets interconnected by resource places, we propose to efficiently extract strict minimal siphons (SMS) in an incremental fashion rather than the traditional global approach. Only a subset of all SMS needs to be searched. The rest SMS can be found by adding a...

Flexible Manufacturing System provides many alternative machines and conveying paths to manufacture a given part. Thus control of such complex systems must be bent, via an effective Production Information System (PIS), to a powerful Decision Making System (DMS) which has to compute the best alternatives in real-time. This paper presents such a Production Information System (PIS) for Flexible Ma...

Scope and Purlmse---An effective tool management is a major requirement for the implementation of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS), hence the computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools. A new solution methodology to the tool management problem is proposed in connection with the tool magazine arrangement and operations sequencing decisions, where there can be alternative tools for each ...

The main objective of this paper is to propose a structured model for evaluating different Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). aims demonstrate how can help in taking correct decisions regarding type manufacturing flexibility needed best FMS. This because huge amount money invested implement FMS industry. Hence, managers need take judicious decision a...