Download or read book Handbook of Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by Nand K. Jha and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a compilation of the current practical knowledge of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). FMS allow manufacturing plants of all sizes to reduce their inventory while increasing their ability to meet consumer demands. By controlling automatic guided vehicles, robots, and machine tools with one central computer, products can now be produced in a variety of styles and models all at the same time. FMS are designed to adapt quickly and economically to changes in requirements and to unpredictable events. This guide explains how to effectively employ these useful new systems. Includes specifications for software to implement simulation modeling Surveys practical applications in the workplace Presents materials in a step-by-step workbook style

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by Horst Tempelmeier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-10-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, this comprehensive and systematic overview of both the design models and quantitative solution methods for FMS support, configuration, and operation rectifies that problem. Students, production managers/planners, and FMS installation planners can now find everything they need in one authoritative and up-to-date source.

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing System written by H. K. Shivanand and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: The book is intended to serve as a textbook for the final and pre-final year B.E., B. Tech. and M. Tech. students of Mechanical, Production, Manufacturing, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Automobile Engg., disciplines. This book can be used in industries, technical training institutes. This covers the main areas of interest in flexible manufacturing namely automation, flexible cells, workstation, AGV?s, AS/RS etc. Separate chapters have been devoted to the important topics. This book emphasizes the basic principles of working and the applications of a wide range of manufactur.

Download or read book Industrial Production Management in Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by Dima, Ioan Constantin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Production Management in Flexible Manufacturing Systems addresses the present discussions surrounding flexible production systems based on automation, robotics and cybernetics as they continue to replace the traditional production systems. The book also covers issues related to the use of multi-servicing in the operational management of the industrial production and its scheduling systems.

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing Systems Handbook written by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Automation and Management Systems Division and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 1984 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes flexible manufacturing systems, representing a relatively new method for increasing productivity. Originated in the 1960's, the technology is now proven & increasingly available. FMSs are particularly attractive to manufacturers producing in middle volume ranges.

Download or read book The Design and Operation of FMS written by Paul G. Ranky and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to set up an FMS & run it successfully. Emphasizes the computer aspects of integrated systems, & software. Covers programming machines, robots & inspection equipment. How to set up management data bases & computer-aided process planning systems.

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing Systems Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing Systems in Practice written by Joseph Talavage and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written for all those interested in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and other forms of computerized manufacturing systems (CMS). It deals with many aspects of the design, operation, and simulation of FMS and explains the origins of FMS.

Download or read book Modeling Simulation and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by MengChu Zhou and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One critical barrier leading to successful implementation of flexible manufacturing and related automated systems is the ever-increasing complexity of their modeling, analysis, simulation, and control. Research and development over the last three decades has provided new theory and graphical tools based on Petri nets and related concepts for the design of such systems. The purpose of this book is to introduce a set of Petri-net-based tools and methods to address a variety of problems associated with the design and implementation of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), with several implementation examples.There are three ways this book will directly benefit readers. First, the book will allow engineers and managers who are responsible for the design and implementation of modern manufacturing systems to evaluate Petri nets for applications in their work. Second, it will provide sufficient breadth and depth to allow development of Petri-net-based industrial applications. Third, it will allow the basic Petri net material to be taught to industrial practitioners, students, and academic researchers much more efficiently. This will foster further research and applications of Petri nets in aiding the successful implementation of advanced manufacturing systems.

Download or read book Implementing Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by Nigel R. Greenwood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) are computer-controlled, automated production lines capable of varied outputs: they put together computing software, robotics, manufacturing technology with existing engineering design skills to produce a very flexible system. Based on the author's own practical experience, this book provides a general insider's appreciation in keeping with current thinking in engineering education which will be suitable for advanced students. For the professional engineer, it stresses commercial as well as technical considerations.

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by Reza A. Maleki and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geared to managers and technical personnel, this book explains the component technologies of Flexible Management Systems (FMS), and explores their relationship with each other and as a whole. The author discusses robotics, progammable logic controllers and automatic guided vehicles.

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing written by David J. Parrish and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the concept of flexible manufacturing has been around for over twenty years, applications have until recently been expensive and unique. Developments over the last five years, however, have made widespread applications of flexible manufacturing systems achievable. This book is intended to inform industry's decision-makers of the extent of advances and how to increase both the flexibility and the productivity of their production system. Not only is a comprehensive overview of the relevant concepts given, but also practical details on the implementation of a flexible manufacturing system and discussion of the benefit such a system can carry. The book avoids much of the jargon in this area, and the presentation is direct and clear. Many illustrations aid understanding, making this an ideal primer for engineers, executives and students who need to know both what flexible manufacturing is and how such systems work before deciding whether such technology is applicable to their own operation. The author's experience in the development and integration of flexible manufacturing projects worldwide is evident in this text, making it an extremely authoritative and informative book.

Download or read book Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by Shahrukh A. Irani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cellular manufacturing (CM) is the grouping of similar products for manufacture in discrete multi-machine cells. It has been proven to yield faster production cycles, lower in-process inventory levels, and enhanced product quality. Pioneered on a large scale by Russian, British, and German manufacturers, interest in CM methods has grown steadily over the past decade. However, there continues to be a dearth of practical guides for industrial engineers and production managers interested in implementing CM techniques in their plants. Bringing together contributions by an international team of CM experts, the Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems bridges this gap in the engineering literature.

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing Systems Recent Developments written by A. Raouf and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-02-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Formal Methods in Manufacturing Systems Recent Advances written by Li, Zhiwu and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolving technologies in mass production have led to the development of advanced techniques in the field of manufacturing. These technologies can quickly and effectively respond to various market changes, necessitating processes that focus on small batches of multiple products rather than large, single-product lines. Formal Methods in Manufacturing Systems: Recent Advances explores this shifting paradigm through an investigation of contemporary manufacturing techniques and formal methodologies that strive to solve a variety of issues arising from a market environment that increasingly favors flexible systems over traditional ones. This book will be of particular use to industrial engineers and students of the field who require a detailed understanding of current trends and developments in manufacturing tools. This book is part of the Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering series collection.

Download or read book Flexible Manufacturing Systems written by Zubair M. Mohamed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994 this book undertakes a comprehensive study dealing with the effects of machine flexibility, tool magazine capacity, varying production demands and different oeprating policies on the production planning problems. Performance measures such as FMS flexibility, makespan and inventory are used in evaluating the effects. Three measures of FMS flexibility - actual routing flexibility, potential routing flexibility and capacity flexibility are defined and operationalized.

Download or read book Design of Flexible Production Systems written by Tullio Tolio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, the production of mechanical components to be assembled in final products produced in high volumes (e.g. cars, mopeds, industrial vehicles, etc.) has undergone deep changes due to the overall modifications in the way companies compete. Companies must consider competitive factors such as short lead times, tight product tolerances, frequent market changes and cost reduction. Anyway, companies often have to define production objectives as trade-offs among these critical factors since it can be difficult to improve all of them. Even if system flexibility is often considered a fundamental requirement for firms, it is not always a desirable characteristic of a system because it requires relevant investment cost which can jeopardize the profitability of the firm. Dedicated systems are not able to adapt to changes of the product characteristics while flexible systems offer more flexibility than what is needed, thus increasing investment and operative costs. Production contexts characterized by mid to high demand volume of well identified families of products in continuous evolution do not require the highest level of flexibility; therefore, manufacturing system flexibility must be rationalized and it is necessary to find out the best trade-off between productivity and flexibility by designing manufacturing systems endowed with the right level of flexibility required by the production problem. This new class of production systems can be named Focused Flexibility Manufacturing Systems-FFMSs. The flexibility degree in FFMSs is related to their ability to cope with volume, mix and technological changes, and it must take into account both present and future changes. The required level of system flexibility impacts on the architecture of the system and the explicit design of flexibility often leads to hybrid systems, i.e. automated integrated systems in which parts can be processed by both general purpose and dedicated machines. This is a key issue of FFMSs and results from the matching of flexibility and productivity that respectively characterize FMSs and Dedicated Manufacturing Systems (DMSs). The market share of the EU in the machine tool sector is 44%; the introduction of focused flexibility would be particularly important for machine tool builders whose competitive advantage is based on the ability of customizing their systems on the basis of needs of their customers. In fact, even if current production contexts frequently present situations which would fit well with the FFMS approach, tradition and know-how of machine tool builders play a crucial role. Firms often agree with the focused flexibility vision, nevertheless they decide not to pay the risk and efforts related to the design of this new system architecture. This is due also to the lack of well-structured design approaches which can help machine tool builders to configure innovative systems. Therefore, the FFMS topic is studied through the book chapters following a shared mission: "To define methodologies and tools to design production systems with a minimum level of flexibility needed to face, during their lifecycle, the product and process evolution both in the technological and demand aspects. The goal is to find out the optimal trade-off between flexibility and productivity". The book framework follows the architecture which has been developed to address the FFMS Design problem. This architecture is both broad and detailed, since it pays attention to all the relevant levels in a firm hierarchy which are involved in the system design. Moreover, the architecture is innovative because it models both the point of view of the machine tool builder and the point of view of the system user. The architecture starts analyzing Manufacturing Strategy issues and generating the possible demand scenario to be faced. Technological aspects play a key role while solving process plan problems for the products in the part family. Strategic and technological data becomes input when a machine tool builder performs system configuration. The resulting system configurations are possible solutions that a system user considers when planning its system capacity. All the steps of the architecture are deeply studied, developing methods and tools to address each subproblem. Particular attention is paid to the methodologies adopted to face the different subproblems: mathematical programming, stochastic programming, simulation techniques and inverse kinematics have been used. The whole architecture provides a general approach to implement the right degree of flexibility and it allows to study how different aspects and decisions taken in a firm impact on each other. The work presented in the book is innovative because it gives links among different research fields, such as Manufacturing Strategy, Process Plan, System Design, Capacity Planning and Performance Evaluation; moreover, it helps to formalize and rationalize a critical area such as manufacturing system flexibility. The addressed problem is relevant at an academic level but, also, at an industrial level. A great deal of industrial sectors need to address the problem of designing systems with the right degree of flexibility; for instance, automotive, white goods, electrical and electronic goods industries, etc. Attention to industrial issues is confirmed by empirical studies and real case analyses which are presented within the book chapters.