Analysis of performance measures of flexible manufacturing system

El-Tamimi, Abdulziz M.; Abidi, Mustufa Haider; Mian, Syed Hammad; Aalam, Javed

doi:10.1016/j.jksues.2011.06.005

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“…A recent survey was conducted to establish the problems in today’s layout planning process and it was found that graphical tools are able to create a more efficient and attractive environment that can replace existing planning processes 37 . Since flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a system that integrates its elements tightly, the relation between them is often hard to compute 38 . Therefore, there is a demand for an analysis method that avoids any substantial loss in labour time, money, and resources.…”

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Virtual Planning, Control, and Machining for a Modular-Based Automated Factory Operation in an Augmented Reality Environment

Pai

Yap

Dawal

et al. 2016

Sci Rep

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This study presents a modular-based implementation of augmented reality to provide an immersive experience in learning or teaching the planning phase, control system, and machining parameters of a fully automated work cell. The architecture of the system consists of three code modules that can operate independently or combined to create a complete system that is able to guide engineers from the layout planning phase to the prototyping of the final product. The layout planning module determines the best possible arrangement in a layout for the placement of various machines, in this case a conveyor belt for transportation, a robot arm for pick-and-place operations, and a computer numerical control milling machine to generate the final prototype. The robotic arm module simulates the pick-and-place operation offline from the conveyor belt to a computer numerical control (CNC) machine utilising collision detection and inverse kinematics. Finally, the CNC module performs virtual machining based on the Uniform Space Decomposition method and axis aligned bounding box collision detection. The conducted case study revealed that given the situation, a semi-circle shaped arrangement is desirable, whereas the pick-and-place system and the final generated G-code produced the highest deviation of 3.83 mm and 5.8 mm respectively.

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Section: Layout Planningmentioning

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Virtual Planning, Control, and Machining for a Modular-Based Automated Factory Operation in an Augmented Reality Environment

Pai

Yap

Dawal

et al. 2016

Sci Rep

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“…Elam et al (2010) explained about how to process, decide, count, assign, run, replicate, verify and validate model along with input-output analysers. El-Tamimi et al (2012) used Awesim simulation software for modelling the Assembly line. Simulation and design of experiments (DOE) was also carried for experimental study of optimising metal cutting line in press work (Jimeneez et al, 2012).…”

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Improving performance of lock assembly line using lean and simulation approach

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Sunnapwar

Chari

et al. 2017

IJBPM

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Assembly line optimisation is an important process. When the system is complex, mathematical modelling and design of experiments becomes difficult. Hence process simulation approach is adopted here. Contribution of this research is improvement of performance of assembly line by maximising the measurement of performances like cycle time, throughput, resource utilisation and also by reducing cost. Key features of this research are development of eight different models for different input variables without disturbing existing set up. This what-if analysis is done using Arena process simulation software. Effect of layout, resource distribution, combination of operations, time study, Maynard operation sequencing techniques (MOST) has been studied here. Combinational effect of all these parameters are difficult to analyse analytically, hence unique simulation approach is selected. MOST is useful to find value added and non-value added activities. Lean techniques like kaizen, total productive maintenance, line balancing, low cost automation are used for different scenarios.

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“…The waiting time of the parts in queue and the task distributions were taken as performance criterions. El Tamimi et al [5] have studied another concept and implementation of the Petri nets for measuring and analysis of FMS performance. The system has been modeled with simulation.…”

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Integrated definition modeling and Taguchi analysis of flexible manufacturing systems: aircraft industry application

Pınarbaşı

Sel

Alakaş

et al. 2013

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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In this paper, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are studied. Firstly, an FMS design approach is proposed using integrated definition for function methodology. A systematic layout design and performance evaluation scheme is presented and detailed using this modeling framework. Then, the proposed approach is carried out with a case study from an aircraft industry to convert an existing traditional production system to FMS. To improve the system performance, a simulation-based method with Taguchi approach consisting of multiproducts is utilized. The objective is to find the machine and the product mix that achieves the maximum utilization while minimizing the cycle time. FMS system performance has been greatly improved by determining the most advantageous level of system components. It has also shown that FMS is a practicable production system in aircraft industry.

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Analysis of performance measures of flexible manufacturing system

Cited by 42 publications

References 45 publications

Virtual Planning, Control, and Machining for a Modular-Based Automated Factory Operation in an Augmented Reality Environment

Virtual Planning, Control, and Machining for a Modular-Based Automated Factory Operation in an Augmented Reality Environment

Improving performance of lock assembly line using lean and simulation approach

Integrated definition modeling and Taguchi analysis of flexible manufacturing systems: aircraft industry application

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