The most commonly-used objective in the literature for solving machine loading and
grouping problems in flexible manufacturing systems is the maximization of steady-state …

Loading problems in flexible manufacturing systems involve assigning operations for
selected part types and their associated tools to machines or machine groups. One of the …

The performance of flexible manufacturing systems,(FMS) has been one of the major topics
that has attracted the attention of production and operations management (POM) …

The increased use of flexible manufacturing systems to provide customers with diversified
products efficiently has created a significant set of operational challenges for managers. This …

This paper focuses on a scheduling problem in a flexible manufacturing system. Unlike most
previous studies, this paper deals with the scheduling problem resulting from a loading plan …

Research has found that while flexibility is purported to be a prime advantage of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS), it has not yet become a major competitive priority for …

This article treats several performance management decision problems in flexible
manufacturing systems (FMSs). This work differs from a number of other studies in that we …

In this paper, we consider the FMS planning problem of determining optimal machine
workload assignments in order to rninimize mean part flow time. We decompose this …

In this article we consider the problem of determining the minimum cost configuration
(number of machines and pallets) for a flexible manufacturing system with the constraint of …

We study three important production planning problems for flexible manufacturing systems
(FMSs) that consist of multiple types of machines. Namely we address machine grouping …