We develop a classification scheme and taxonomy of operating decisions in flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS). The taxonomy is used to identify a promising research area …

The authors present the results of a simulation study of a flexible manufacturing system
(FMS). The FMS considered includes ten machining centers capable of performing a variety …

This paper attempts to reveal the interrelationships between the workstation loading and
system entry policies and in particular to investigate the adverse or positive effects of …

The concept of single-stage multimachine systems (SSMS) has been introduced for newly
emerging manufacturing environment which can be expressed by mass customization. In …

FMS real time scheduling requires the concurrent solution of both loading and despatching
problems. The loading strategy is the most critical and important scheduling decision in an …

Global economical developments and market competition have altered the fundamentals of
the manufacturing industry. The technological advances in computers, both hardware and …

Abstract Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), as material handling systems, are widely
diffused in FMS environment. The design of such a system involves the selection of the most …

Reports on a comparison by computer simulation between conventional periodic loading
(PL) and job‐group loading (JGL). When conventional PL is used, the search of the best part …

Özet Bu tez çalışmasında, ilk olarak esnek üretim sistemine geçiş sürecinin yaşanabileceği
geleneksel ve hücresel üretim sistemleri anlatılmıştır. Tezin ikinci bölümünde esnek üretim …

Due to unavailability of sufficiently large problem sets, the FMS researchers have mostly
limited their studies to specific systems. It is, therefore, not possible to generalize the results …