The planning and scheduling of flexible machining cells is a problem of well known
complexity. Within such cells, the use of the latest computerized numerical control machining …

The need for generating efficient planning and control systems for flexible machining
facilities has further increased with the pressures of the modern global market, in which …

SUMMARY A flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) has become of major interest recently as a
new machining unit for low-volume, variety production. However, set-up operations for …

In this paper we develop a scheduling procedure for a Flexible Manufacturing Cell (FMC),
consisting of a number of basically identical machining centres and operating as part of a …

Process planning and scheduling are two functions commonly encountered in any
manufacturing system. Despite the well recognized interdependencies between them …

The objective of this paper is to describe an effective scheduling system for flexible
manufacturing cells (FMC). Based on FMC characteristics, cell scheduling can be …

This paper describes shopfloor scheduling techniques for a highly automated metal cutting
machining centre. The machining centre is modelled as a generalized flowshop, ie a set of …

This study addresses an integrated batching and scheduling problem for a single-machine
flexible machining cell in which each pallet can load multiple parts, ie multi-fixturing pallets …

The loading and scheduling of multiple, flexible manufacturing cells is addressed. A fexible
manufacturing system may contain two or more flexible manufacturing cells, where each cell …

Most scheduling papers consider flexible machining and assembly systems as being
independent. In this paper, a heuristic two-level scheduling algorithm for a system consisting …