Cimgen—a Computer Aided Software Engineering Tool for Development of FMS Control Software

Flexible manufacturing system structural control and the Neighborhood Policy, part 2. Generalization, optimization, and efficiency

“…Note that states 6, 1, and 3 are guaranteed to be safe because they are members of this sequence. Now suppose that the system is in the empty state, SE, and we move against the sense of edge (3,SE) to state 3. Clearly, state 3 is safe because we need only move with the sense of edge (3,SE) to return to the empty state.…”

“…U~ fortunately, the development of control software has emerged as one of the most difficult problems associated with building automated manufacturing/production systems [2]. During the past decade, control software for flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) has proved to be both expensive and highly brittle [3]. Such software has typically been developed to control a specific system configuration in a 'turnkey' fashion.…”

The state of the art in intelligent real-time FMS control: a comprehensive survey

“…Cho and Wysk (1995) viewed the problem from a CIM viewpoint, and discussed the requirements, problems and models for an intelligent workstation controller. Davis and Jones (1989) ¢ McConnell and Medeiros (1992) ,/ Rogers and Gordon (1993) , ,/ ,/ ¢ Kim and Kim (1994) , / Harmonosky and Robohn (1995) J ¢ Hatono et al (1992) ,/ Choobineh and Shivani (1992 Shaw (1986) ,/ ¢" Shen and Chang (1986) ¢ Subramanyam and Askin (1986) ,/ Maimon (1987) / ,/ ¢ Bu-Hulaiga and Chakravarty (1988) ¢ , / Maley et al (1988) ,/ O'Grady and Lee (1988) ¢ ¢ Shaw (1988) ¢ ¢ Young and Rossi (1988) ,/ ,/ Kusiak (1989) ,/ Shaw and Whinston (1989) , / Joshi et al (1992) ,/ Teltz and Elbestawi (1992) ,/ Karabuk and Sabuncuoglu (1993) ¢ / Heikkila et aL (1994) ,/ Lefrancois and Montreuil (1994) ,/ Ranky (1992) ,/ ,/ ,/ Ravichandran and Chakravarty (1986) ¢ Gentina and Corbeel (1987) , / Ferreira et al (1991) / ¢ / Shih and Sekiguchi (1991) , / Huang and Chang (1992) ¢ Lee and DiCesare (1992) , / Camurri et al (1993) ¢ Raju and Chetty (1993a) ,/ Raju and Cherty (1993b) ,/ ¢ Cheng et al (1994) ,/ ,/ Masory (1994) , / Valavanis et al (1994) ,/ Lin and Chung (1986) ¢ Wu and Wysk (1988) / ,/ Rabelo and Alptekin (1989) ,/ Banks (1992) (1991) ,/ ¢ Wu (1992) / Sagi et al …”

“…On a related effort, Joshi et al (1992) designed a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool for developing FMS control software for the workstation and cell control levels.…”

Modular generic software system for cellular FMS

“…This has also been encouraged and facilitated by the advent of object-oriented programming (O-OP) (Booch 1991). The formal grammar approach was also used by Joshi et al (1992), who succeeded in the automatic generation of the control logic which coordinates and drives shop-¯oor equipment. Their proposed solution consisted of three concepts: a scalable FMS control architecture, automatically generated control software and the O-OP of equipment components.…”