Research Issues and Development in Advance Manufacturing Systems

Abstract

The last few decades have observed the intense global competition, increasing demand of variety of products, reduced product life cycles, fast technological development and also difficulty in assessing of prediction the demand accurately. To be profitable and competitive, the industry has to be quick to respond to the fast fluctuating world in which, emerging economies, new concepts and philosophies of doing business, technical developments and ever varying needs of customers pose serious challenges to its survival. This research focuses the various types of manufacturing systems like dedicated manufacturing system (DMS), flexible manufacturing system (FMS), lean manufacturing system (LMS) and reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS). In the present work the limitations of the manufacturing system, various research and development issues related to advance manufacturing system have been discussed.

Organizational Innovation Concepts in Slovenian Manufacturing Companies

“…This reduces waste, eases problem solving and enhances productivity within a particular job or set of jobs (Krichbaum, 2008;Polašek and Šimon, 2018). Value stream mapping (VSM) is an important tool of the lean approach and is used to identify value-adding activities and those considered wasteful of materials and the flow of information and people (dal Forno, 2014;Mahendrakar, 2018). Value stream mapping is an enterprise improvement tool to help in visualizing the entire production process, representing both material and information flow (Singh et al, 2011).…”