Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments

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Contents:

1. FMS in Perspective

• FMS: an investigation for research and applications
• FMS planning since the early eighties - experiences, recommendations, and future tendencies

2. Flexibility Issues

• Manufacturing systems: Flexibility assessment
• Flexibility and productivity in complex production processes
• Flexibility in pull and push type production ordering systems - Some ways to increase flexibility in manufacturing systems
  
  

3. FMS Planning

• FMS short-term planning problems: a review
• Loading models in Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• Production planning models for a Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• Heuristics for loading Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• A framework for developing maintenance policy for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

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