This paper reviews and classifies literature on the use of discrete event simulation for
manufacturing system design and operation problems. Simulation has been a widely used …

Since the late 1970s when the first collection of papers on scheduling of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMSs) has been published, it has been one of the most popular …

One of the major requirements of agile manufacturing strategies for the 21st century is to
introduce intelligent information technology into manufacturing. The main contribution of this …

Scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) has been one of the most attractive
areas for both researchers and practitioners. A considerable body of literature has …

Despite the large volume of publications devoted to neural networks, fuzzy logic, and
evolutionary programming, few address the applications of computational intelligence in …

This paper presents the results of a simulation study of a typical flexible manufacturing
system (FMS) that has routeing flexibility. The objective is this study is to test the …

This paper presents a real-time fuzzy expert system to scheduling parts for a flexible
manufacturing system (FMS). First, some vagueness and uncertainties in scheduling rules …

This paper deals with the production planning problem of a flexible manufacturing system
(FMS). This problem is within the class of problems which are usually faced during the life …

An embedded structure is selected to construct an intelligent simulation model. A framework
is proposed so that both the event generator and expert system are controlled by a …

This research explores a hardware-based parallel simulation mechanism that can
dramatically improve the speed of simulating flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) by …