Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments: Reference for Modern Instrumentation, Techniques, and Technology

✍ Scribed by A. Raouf and M. Ben-Daya (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Series: Manufacturing Research and Technology 23
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) involve substituting machines capable of performing a wide and redefinable variety of tasks for machines dedicated to the performance of specific tasks. FMS can also be programmed to handle new products, thus extending the machines' life cycles. Thus they represent a change from "standardized goods produced by customized machines" to "customized goods produced by standardized machines". This volume contains new and updated material in this field, and will be of great interest to researchers, managers and students concerned with problems related to flexible manufacturing systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Preface
Pages v-vi
A. Raouf, M. Ben-Daya

Flexible manufacturing systems: An investigation for research and applications Original Research Article
Pages 3-44
A. Gunasekaran, T. Martikainen, P. Yli-Olli

FMS-planning since the early eighties—Experiences, recommendations and future tendencies Original Research Article
Pages 45-66
H.-J. Warnecke, R. Steinhilper, H. Storn

Manufacturing systems: Flexibility assessment Original Research Article
Pages 69-84
A. Raouf, M. Farooq Anjum

Flexibility and productivity in complex production processes Original Research Article
Pages 85-93
Sten-Olof Gustavsson

Flexibility in pull and push type production orderingsystems-some ways to increase flexibility in manufacturing systems Original Research Article
Pages 95-109
R. Muramatsu, K. Ishi, K. Takahashi

FMS short term planning problems: a review Review Article
Pages 113-139
Mohamed Ben-Daya

Loading models in flexible manufacturing systems Original Research Article
Pages 141-156
A. Kusiak

Production planning model for a flexible manufacturing system Original Research Article
Pages 157-170
Pankaj Chandra

Heuristics for loading flexible manufacturing systems Original Research Article
Pages 171-182
E. Kathryn Stecke, F. Brian Talbot

A framework for developing maintenance policyfor flexible manufacturing systems Original Research Article
Pages 183-194
A. Raouf

FMS planning and control-analysis and design Original Research Article
Pages 197-252
Christian Bérard, Lucas Pun, Bernard Archimède

Control system design for flexible manufacturing systems Original Research Article
Pages 253-290
F.L. Lewis, H.-H. Huang, O. Pastravanu, A. Gürel

A computer integrated robotic flexible welding cell Original Research Article
Pages 293-304
J.E. Middle, K.H. Goh

Idea and practice of flexible manufacturing systems of toyota Original Research Article
Pages 305-316
Atushi Masuyama