With the growing use of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), it became more important to optimize them. Scheduling is one critical problems in FMS optimization. This study presents a new application multi-criterion decision-making (MCDM) methods for scheduling automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The problem addressed this research refers situation, which several orders from different job statio...

For responsiveness, in the Petri nets theory framework deadlock prevention policies based elementary siphons control are often utilized to deal with deadlocks caused by the sharing of resources in flexible manufacturing system (FMS) which is developing the theory of efficient strict minimal siphons of an S3PR. Analyzer of Petri net models and their P-invariant analysis, and deadlock control are...

Dispatching rules are frequently used to schedule jobs in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) dynamically. A drawback, however, to using dispatching rules is that their performance is dependent on the state of the system, but no single rule exists that is superior to all the others for all the possible states the system might be in. This drawback would be eliminated if the best rule for each ...

Nowadays, flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is introduced as a response to the competitive environment. Scheduling of FMS is more complex and more difficult than the other scheduling production systems. One of the main factors in scheduling of FMS is variable time of taking orders from customers, which leads to a sudden change in the manufacturing process. Also, some problems are created in p...

Flexible manufacturing system is a system that is able to respond to changed conditions. In general, this flexibility is divided into two key categories and several subcategories. The first category is the so called machine flexibility which enables to make various products by the given machinery. The second category is routing flexibility enabling to execute the same operation by various machi...

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...