ISSN:
0957-6061
Source:
Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Economics
Notes:
In today's rapidly changing market environment it has becomenecessary for manufacturing systems to have quick response times andhigh flexibility. This has led to the development of flexiblemanufacturing systems (FMS). Owing to its highly automated nature, atypical FMS has a high investment cost. Hence it becomes necessary toselect the best configuration and decision rules at the design stageitself. The decision rules can have a substantial effect on the systemperformance. Attempts to simulate a particular FMS system. Appliesdifferent combinations of scheduling rules at the workstation buffersand at the loading buffer to the system and evaluates their effect onsystem performance.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09576069510093442
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