The current manufacturing environment aims at getting an increasing variety of customised,
high-quality products in flexible batches. The dynamic market demand, the short product …

The reconfigurable manufacturing system is an advanced field of research that has
surpassed the efficiency of other manufacturing systems due to its high throughput, cost …

Configuration selection for reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) is one of the key
issue that needs to be addressed to transform RMS implementation from its nascent stage to …

With the increasing dynamic nature of customer demand, production, product, and
manufacturing design changes have become more frequent. Moreover, inadequate …

Within cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs), families of parts are assigned to
manufacturing cells, composed by homogeneous sets of machines. In conventional CMSs …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an organized review of existing research on
reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS). The paper considers majority of the prominent …

The manufacturing industry has witnessed rapid changes, including unpredictable product
demand, diverse customer requirements, and increased pressure to launch new products …

To address the problem of how to identify the best time to implement reconfiguration for the
reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS), a dynamic complexity-based RMS …

There is extensive literature on the reconfiguration of manufacturing systems; however, there
are only a few decision support approaches that allow full advantage to be taken of the …

To address the problem of how to allow a reconfigurable manufacturing system to
simultaneously consider efficiency and flexibility, a method is presented for the formation of …