There has been some uncertainty concerning the conditions under which a manufacturing system may be termed 'flexible'. To clarify this confusion eight types of flexibilities are defined and described. A FLEXIBLE Manufacturing System (FMS) is an integrated, computer-controlled complex of automated material handling devices and numerically controlled (NC) machine tools that can simultaneously pro...

this article is arranged based on a research plan which its goals is evaluation of the possibility of applying flexible human resource structure in industrial organizations. in this research, applying conditions of just in time (j.i.t) and flexible manufacturing systems (f.m.s) have brought up as a pioneer flexible movements in industrial units and based on based two phenomenon, the nescessity ...

In recent years, flexible manufacturing system as a response to market demands has been proposed to increase product diversity, optimum utilization of machines andperiods of short-term products.The development of computer systems has provided the ability to build machines with high functionality and the necessary flexibility to perform various operations. However, due to the complexity and the ...