Simulation for analysis of scheduling rules for a flexible manufacturing system

Abstract

In today′s rapidly changing market environment it has become necessary for manufacturing systems to have quick response times and high flexibility. This has led to the development of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Owing to its highly automated nature, a typical FMS has a high investment cost. Hence it becomes necessary to select the best configuration and decision rules at the design stage itself. The decision rules can have a substantial effect on the system performance. Attempts to simulate a particular FMS system. Applies different combinations of scheduling rules at the workstation buffers and at the loading buffer to the system and evaluates their effect on system performance.

Citation

Goyal, S.K., Mehta, K., Kodali, R. and Deshmukh, S.G. (1995), "Simulation for analysis of scheduling rules for a flexible manufacturing system", Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 6 No. 5, pp. 21-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/09576069510093442