The volatile condition of today's market is forcing the manufacturing managers to adapt the
flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) to meet the challenges imposed by international …

Global competition, advancements in technology and ever changing customers' demand
have made the manufacturing companies to realize the importance of flexible manufacturing …

Home Care (HC) providers are complex organizations that manage a large number of
patients, different categories of operators, support staff and material resources in a context …

This paper proposes an ant colony optimisation-based software system for solving FMS
scheduling in a job-shop environment with routing flexibility, sequence-dependent setup …

The purpose of this research is the identification of issues related to constraints in the
flexible manufacturing system (FMS). FMS comprises different resources as machine tool …

Machine-loading problem of a flexible manufacturing system is known for its complexity. This
problem encompasses various types of flexibility aspects pertaining to part selection and …

In this paper, a novel approach using an efficient multi-objective genetic algorithm EMOGA
is proposed to solve the problems of production planning of flexible manufacturing systems …

This contribution presents a novel approach to address the scheduling of resource-
constrained flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). It deals with several critical features that …

Routing flexibility is a major contributor of the flexibility of a flexible manufacturing system
(FMS). The present paper focuses on the evaluation of the routing flexibility of an FMS with …

This paper attempts at surveying the available literature on issues related to management of
manufacturing flexibilities in the context of flexible manufacturing technology (FMT) …