Dynamic rescheduling decision-making problem is an important issue in modern manufacturing system with the feature of combinational computation complexity. This paper introduces a multi-agent based approach using the detailed process, provided by Prometheus methodology, which used for the design of a simultaneous dynamic rescheduling decision making for flexible flow line manufacturing system t...

One of the crucial steps in the design of a cellular manufacturing system is the cell formation problem, which involves grouping the parts into part families and machines into manufacturing cells, so that parts with similar processing requirements are manufactured within the same cell. When modelling this problem it is usually assumed that the specific machine in which each operation is carried...

The combination of multi-functional machines and mobile robots supports the emergence of highly flexible intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS). In this kind of manufacturing system, some machines must stay fixed at previously established positions (heavy equipment) but some types of multi-functional machines (small flexible equipment and mobile robots) can stay in one position for one or seve...

A flexible manufacturing system is a high automated GT machine cell, consisting of a group of processing workstations (usually CNC machine tools), interconnected by an automated material handling and storage system, and controlled by a distributed computer system. The reason the FMS is called flexible is that it is capable of processing a variety of diffrent part styles simultaneously at the va...

A flexible manufacturing system is a high automated GT machine cell, consisting of a group of processing workstations (usually CNC machine tools), interconnected by an automated material handling and storage system, and controlled by a distributed computer system. The reason the FMS is called flexible is that it is capable of processing a variety of diffrent part styles simultaneously at the va...

Cellular manufacturing is a useful way to improve overall manufacturing performance. Group technology is used to increase the productivity for manufacturing high quality products and improving the flexibility of manufacturing systems. Cell formation is an important step in group technology. It is used in designing good cellular manufacturing systems. The key step in designing any cellular manuf...

This paper describes the development of an agent-based framework for the intelligent control of flexible manufacturing systems. An FMS is a complex manufacturing system, in which the control system is responsible for the planning, control and monitoring functions. Traditionally, manufacturing systems are commonly established with hierarchical control architecture. This approach is not flexible ...

In this paper, an analytical approach for the availability evaluation of cellular manufacturing systems is presented, where a manufacturing system is considered operational as long as its production capacity requirements are satisfied. The advantage of the approach is that constructing a system level Markov chain (a complex task) is not required. A manufacturing system is decomposed into two su...

Most production environments face random, unexpected events such as machine failure, uncertain processing times, the arrival of new jobs, and cancellation jobs. For reduction undesirable side effects an disruption, initial schedule needs to be reformed partially or entirely. In this paper, a mathematical model is presented address integrated cell formation cellular rescheduling problems in manu...

Cellular manufacturing system is the formation of optimised machine cells, which forms part families with similar processing requirements and associates machines into machine cells in order to optimise the overall production process. To effectively solve this problem a hybrid novel approach is demonstrated in this paper, which is based on weighted average linkage clustering algorithm and fuzzy-...