The increased use of flexible manufacturing systems to efficiently provide customers with diversified products has created a significant set of operational challenges for managers. Many issues concerning procedures and policies for the day-to-day operation of these systems are still unresolved. Previous studies in this area have concentrated on various problems by isolating or simplifying the s...

This paper is concerned with providing a clear business basis for the emerging research field of holonic manufacturing systems. The holonic approach is to develop highly flexible manufacturing operations from a set of readily reconfigurable building blocks, which are designed to integrate easily and collaborate dynamically with one another as production demand changes. The business basis is ass...

The main problem of manufacturing products in conditions flexible automated production is the achievement high quality indicators parts, such as accuracy characteristics, surface roughness and layer condition. Obtaining parts modern technological systems requires study specific features production. Frequent readjustment equipment, replacement tools, redistribution characteristics elastic system...

General preventive maintenance model for the components of a system, which improves the reliability to ‘as good as new,’ was used to optimize the maintenance cost. The cost function of a maintenance policy was minimized under given availability constraint. On the other hand, in order to ensure appropriate reliability and availability, the development of the optimal maintenanc...