Manufacturing systems must be able to be reconfigured rapidly, in order to adapt to changing demands – and this means having highly automated processes that use technology to change over from one ...

October 16, 2005 When English physicist, futurist and science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke wrote “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (in “Profiles of the ...

Marshaled in the battle against foreign competition, flexible manufacturing is leading U.S. manufacturers to get the most out of their investments in equipment and facilities and their employees, both ...

While flexible manufacturing systems can switch between product types, adaptive production creates intelligent operations to address issues ranging from equipment behavior to supply disruptions and ...

A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is an integrated, computer-controlled complex of automated material handling devices and numerically controlled machine tools that can simultaneously process ...

Material handling and the provision of supporting resources, particularly tools, in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) can constrain production. To improve the productivity for an existing FMS, we ...

Mass customization is a phrase that we’re becoming increasingly familiar with in manufacturing, particularly within consumer goods. Connected consumers—with ever-increasing and rapidly changing ...

Flexible production system: Higher force and precision, for example when assembling a bicycle frame. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Fastems MMS5 allows managers at multiple levels of an organization to have a customized GUI for predictive scheduling, combined with comprehensive resource planning. The MMS Station Commander lets ...