cellular manufacturing system (cms) is highly important in modern manufacturing methods. given the ever increasing market competition in terms of time and cost of manufacturing, we need models to decrease the cost and time of manufacturing. in this study, cms is considered in condition of dynamic demand in each period. the model is developed for facing dynamic demand that increases the cost of ...

 In this paper, we describe aspects related to learning and learning assessment including pedagogy, cognition, pilot study and results from the study. This study is conducted for an educational module on “10 Principles of Materials Handling”. This module along with another titled “Analysis and Design of Integrated Material Handling Systems” constitute a system of multimedia educational tools f...

Varieties of robotic grippers are developed with high flexibility and multi-functional approaches. In this paper, the study is an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable size, shape and weight of unpacked food products i.e. ‘Vacuum Gripper of Robots’ which is working on Bernoulli Principle for generating a high-speed flow between the gripper plate and product surface thereby crea...

In the manufacturing line, there is a material handling system which transfers an item from one machine to other machine. One of the simplest material handling systems is RGV(Rail Guided Vehicle) system. In this system, RGV moves only backward and forward on the guided rail and it executes the job which consists of two location information; 'From location', 'To location'. When the RGV gets a jo...

Material handling equipment plays an important role in the design and development of advance manufacturing systems (AMS) like flexible manufacturing systems. Material handling equipments affects the performance and productivity of these advance manufacturing systems. So it becomes very important to select a right kind of equipment while designing the high end manufacturing systems like FMS. In ...

The paper deals with the problem of numerical simulation of contact between compliant gripping element and rigid object of handling. Compliant gripping element is represented with a rubber suction cap and the handling object is comprised by rigid plate. Contact is researched under various load conditions taking account to chosen material of suction cap that is characterized with nonlinear depen...

In this paper, a mixed-integer linearized programming (MINLP) model is presented to design a group layout (GL) of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) in a dynamic environment and considering production planning (PP) decisions. This model incorporates an extensive coverage of important manufacturing features used in the design of CMSs. There are also some features that make the presented model...