Title :
An architecture for flexible manufacturing cells with alternate machining and alternate sequencing
Author :
Yalcin, Ali ; Boucher, Thomas O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA
fDate :
12/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
One of the characteristics of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) is that they can consider multiple part routing due to alternate machining and alternate sequencing in the processing of parts. This paper presents a new architecture based on colored Petri nets (CPNs) that allows the supervisory controller of a flexible manufacturing cell to consider alternate machining and alternate sequencing in real time control of the cell. This capability for real time alternate routing is an extension of prior research on the application of CPN to modeling FMSs
Keywords :
Petri nets; flexible manufacturing systems; machining; production control; real-time systems; FMS; colored Petri nets; flexible manufacturing systems; machining; part routing; production control; real time systems; sequencing; supervisory control; Active matrix liquid crystal displays; Color; Flexible manufacturing systems; Labeling; Lighting; Machining; Optical films; Petri nets; Plasma temperature; Polynomials; Pulp manufacturing; Routing; Stress; System recovery; Thin film transistors; Threshold voltage; Virtual manufacturing; Voltage fluctuations;
Journal_Title :
Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on
