Excellent Techniques of Manufacturing Systems : RMS and FMS

Meeting customer demands requires a high degree of flexibility as well as abilities to reconfigure operations for new demands. Based on literature review, various types of flexibilities are presented with a view to clarify their correspondence. This paper highlighted the merits, demerits and applications of RMS and FMS. Different technique of RMS and FMS are overviewed. The recent researches in reconfigurable design also viewed in the research paper. The paper is concluded with a future research of flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing system.