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

Volume

15

Issue

6

fYear

1999

fDate

12/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1126

Lastpage

1130

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1042-296X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/70.817676

Filename

817676