Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Decision Support for Design and Operations

Here is everything you need to know about FMS in one authoritative, up-to-date source Flexible Manufacturing Systems presents a comprehensive and systematic overview of both the design models and quantitative solution methods for FMS support, configuration, and operation. You'll get complete definitions of FMS, its subsystems, and the term "flexibility," coverage of the complete FMS planning process from design to operation, with discussion of the full spectrum of long-range and short-range planning problems quantitative models for evaluating the performance of each FMS design alternative illustrations for each algorithm used, all taken from actual industrial FMSs, decision models for optimizing FMS routing, capacity, and equipment with numerical examples discussion of classical approaches to performance evaluation as well as blocking and starving (with approximation procedures) and much more.