Author(s)

Girija Chetty

Abstract

The manufacturing environment these days is characterised by rapid change, posing new challenges and problems to the production and operations manager in the industry. Under this circumstances, process flexibility is fast becoming a major priority for many organisations as they attempt to deal with these changes. In response to the need for process flexibility, increasing attention is being given to integration of computing technologies with the manufacturing systems leading to the development of flexible manufacturing systems aided with high performance vision capabilities. The flexible manufacturing between various batches. Ideally, FMS should be able to accommodate the batch size of one component. This is possible if the programs for machining of different batches can be loaded instan

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