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Appropriate Automation for Flexible Manufacturing
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1987Abstract Flexible manufacturing systems(FMS) have met with great interest in research and practice in recent years. It is symptomatic of the present way of thinking of manufacturing planners that the term FMS already implies fully automated manufacturing while, in actual practice in most cases, a less highly automated, but highly flexible, type of ...
Martin, T., Ulich, E., Warnecke, H. J.
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Flexible skills for flexible manufacturing
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1987Abstract This paper briefly reviews some of the employment implications of the current trend towards computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). It draws on empirical studies of the diffusion and operation of flexible manufacturing systems in the UK since these can be considered as "islands of automation" on the way to full CIM. The paper concludes that
J. Bessant, B. Haywood
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A Review on Manufacturing Flexibility
2008The topic of manufacturing flexibility has been addressed by many scientific contributions in the past years, thus highlighting the relevance of the problem both at industrial and academic level. Internal and external issues need to be faced at the same time when designing a manufacturing system and its flexibility; indeed, products and processes are ...
TERKAJ, WALTER +2 more
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Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Manufacturing Flexibility in the United Kingdom
International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1987Flexible manufacturing systems are being implemented at a rapidly increasing rate. A study of management issues arising from the implementation of flexible manufacturing systems was undertaken between June 1985 and March 1986. This article is based on the study of twelve systems in the UK and is primarily concerned with flexibility and its achievement.
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Development of a flexible AGV for flexible manufacturing systems
Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 2010Purpose The paper aims to describe the design and development of an automated guided vehicle (AGV) that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to increase its autonomy and flexibility. The aim is developing a flexible AGV that operates as a flexible material handling system (MHS) in dynamic industrial ...
Humberto Martínez Barberá +1 more
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Flexibility Ratios and Manufacturing Strategy
Management Science, 1994In this exploratory, empirical study of modernizing durable goods plants, it was found that typical measures of flexibility (e.g., number of unique parts and part families) are independent. More importantly, plants and firms with greater strategic manufacturing focus, regardless of specific emphasis (e.g., cost or quality), scheduled fewer part ...
John E. Ettlie, Joan D. Penner-Hahn
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Manufacturing flexibility: A literature review
International Journal of Production Research, 1998In this article an attempt is made to classify the vast literature regarding manufacturing flexibility; the aim is to contribute to the conceptual systemization of the debate, whose richness plays witness of the abundance of themes and the difficulty of obtaining a unitary and univocal framework.
DE TONI, Alberto Felice +1 more
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Logistics models in flexible manufacturing
Computers in Industry, 1998Abstract An integrated modeling approach that considers the overall production schedule is needed in order to effectively manage different material flows in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS), where large amounts of data intervene in the dynamic control and decision making process. This study focuses on the development of an integrated FMS control
Z.A. Banaszak +3 more
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The effects of routing flexibility on a flexible manufacturing system
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2001There are generally eight common types of flexibility in manufacturing, and routing flexibility is one of them. As implementing routing flexibility is an expensive proposition, many system designers have therefore aimed at providing the optimum level of flexibility under certain operating conditions.
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Petri nets and flexible manufacturing
1990The aim of this invited survey is to introduce Computer science/Petri nets specialists to the basic system level issues brought up by the development of Flexible Manufacturing and how Petri nets are used to aid the production engineers in their work. After some terminology concerning production engineering, the hierarchical decision and control level ...
Manuel Silva Suárez, Robert Valette
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