Performance Evaluation of Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) in Manufacturing Industries

A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) incorporates numerically-controlled machine tools, robots, automated material handling systems, and automated inspection and self diagnostic facilities into a single production system whose integration is under the control of a hierarchical information system network. On one hand, the benefits of implementing FMS result in production maximization and prevent stations from being idle. Present era demands an efficient modelling of any manufacturing system that can enable it to cope with the unforeseen situations on the shop floor. One of the complex issues of these manufacturing systems that affect the performance of the manufacturing system is the scheduling of the part types. In this paper, authors have made an attempt to overcome the impact of uncertainties such as machine breakdowns, deadlocks. FMS offers lower carryover effects when stations interrupt, and also lowers the cost of maintaining spare part inventories due to the fact that similar equipment can share components. The goal of this paper is to Performance Evaluation of FMS in Manufacturing Industries.