In the 80’s, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) concept was adopted as a solution to all the problems in manufacturing. However, it was soon realized that the evolving demands for manufacturing systems were not handled by CIM. New alternatives rise, and especially Agent-Based Manufacturing and Holonic Manufacturing Systems, for cooping with today’s manufacturing systems requirements. From ...

cellular manufacturing system is one of the most important applications of group technology. design of this system involves many structural and operational issues, in which the cell formation and production planning are two important steps. in this paper, a new mathematical model is proposed for integration of cell formation and production planning problems with the aim of minimizing the overal...

In this project, we first planned to model a manufacturing system using a partial differential equation (PDE), since in the theory of traffic simulation and control, PDEs are used successfully for modeling the dynamic behavior of highway traffic. Because these traffic models show good correspondence with manufacturing systems (vehicles = products, highway = manufacturing system), PDEs can also ...

The planning of Manufacturing Systems involves frequently the resolution of a huge amount and variety of combinatorial optimization problems with a important impact on the performance of manufacturing organizations. The proposed approach is in line with reality and away from the approaches that deal with static and classic or basic Job-Shop scheduling problems. In fact, in real world, where pro...

Market-oriented production systems generally have the characteristics of multi-product and small-batch production. Dynamic virtual cellular manufacturing create cells periodically in a planning horizon to respond changing demands flexibly quickly, thus are suitable for problems market-oriented systems. In current research, we propose dynamic cell reconfiguration framework under environment with...

production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. one of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own pros and cons, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. on other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. a maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equip...