Layout of flexible manufacturing systems based on kinematic constraints of the autonomous material handling system

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 (9-12) ◽  
pp. 1521-1537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan S. Tubaileh
Keyword(s):  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Flexible Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Material Handling System ◽  
Kinematic Constraints ◽  
Handling System

scholarly journals Design and Development of a Material Handling System for an Autonomous Intelligent Vehicle for Flexible Manufacturing

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 493-500
Author(s):  
Mr Con Cronin ◽  
Mr Anshul Awasthi ◽  
Mr Andrew Conway ◽  
Daniel O’Riordan ◽  
Joseph Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Intelligent Vehicle ◽  
Material Handling System ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Handling System

scholarly journals Development of a reconfigurable pallet system for a robotic cell

2018 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Martin Koekemoer ◽  
Igor Gorlach
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Robotic Assembly ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Material Handling System ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Handling System ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
Material Handling Systems

Advanced manufacturing systems allow rapid changes of production processes by means of reconfigurability providing mass customisation of products with high productivity, quality and low costs. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) employ conventional as well as special purpose CNC machines, robots and material handling systems. In customised automated assembly, a number of different workpieces need to be processed simultaneously at various workstations according to their process plans. Therefore, a material handling system is an important part of RMS, whose main task is to provide reliable, accurate and efficient transfer of materials according to the process scheduling, without bottlenecks and stoppages. In this research, a reconfigurable pallet system was developed to facilitate automated robotic assembly for a highly customised production environment. The aim is to design a material handling system for conveying, sorting and processing of parts, which are supplied by robots and part feeders in different configurations. The developed pallet system provides a low-cost solution and it includes four flexible conveyors and part handling devices. All the elements of the system were successfully integrated with an intelligent controller. A user-friendly human machine interface provides easy reconfigurability of the pallet system and interfacing with robots, processing stations and part feeding sub-systems. The main advantages of the developed material handling system are the ease of operation, its reconfigurability and low-cost. The system demonstrates the advantages of reconfigurable material handling systems and it can be employed for training purposes.

Characteristics Analysis of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 172-175
Author(s):  
Jin Feng Wang ◽  
Guang Feng Zhang ◽  
Xian Zhang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Flexible Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Characteristics Analysis

For the rigid automatic line, although its production efficiency is high, but the flexible is less in the machining process, the machine and the assembly line need be shut down to adjust or replace for machine tools, jigs, tools, and tooling equipment, etc. When the work pieces for the machining is changed. It caused a heavy workload, wasting a lot of time. Flexible Manufacturing Systems consisted of unified control system, material handling system and a set of digital control processing equipment; it is the automation machinery manufacturing system to adapt the processing object transform. It has become one of the important means of manufacturing industry to obtain the advantages of market competitiveness. This paper gives the composition, algorithm and application of learning system concept, composition, and classification, characteristics of the flexible manufacturing system, the development overview and its application are induced in this paper.

The Hardware Design of Handling Manipulator in FMS

2011 ◽  
Vol 143-144 ◽  
pp. 913-916
Author(s):  
Xun Mei Han
Keyword(s):  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Flexible Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Hardware Implementation ◽  
Position Control ◽  
Robot Manipulator ◽  
Open Loop ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
And Control

With CAXA software I designed the structure of the handling manipulator in the FMS. And focus for the design of the structure, introduced the hardware implementation of robot manipulator with the same characteristics of stepping away from its open-loop position control. The manipulator is mainly used for flexible manufacturing systems in material handling, flexible movement, safe, reliable, easy to adjust and control, simple operation, easy to implement process automation.

scholarly journals Scheduling of Machines and AGVs Simultaneously in FMS through Hybrid Teaching Learning Based Optimization Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 2048-2055
Keyword(s):  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Material Handling System ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Handling System ◽  
Teaching Learning Based Optimization ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Simultaneous Scheduling

The most complex problem in FMS is scheduling task, due to this complexity it has created interest among many researchers. Even though FMS scheduling problem was considered earlier, material handling systems like (AGVs) scheduling was not done effectively. As transportation times cannot be neglected in an FMS, a carefully managed and designed material handling system is important in achieving the required integration in flexible manufacturing environment. Hence there is a need for scheduling both the machines and material handling system simultaneously for the successful implementation of an FMS, which makes the scheduling of FMS more complex. Metaheuristic Algorithms are mostly received by the researchers, because of their capability to tackle more complex problems. Hybridization of the metaheuristics may further improve their performance. In the present work a new hybrid metaheuristic Teaching Learning based optimization(HTLBO) is proposed to solve simultaneous scheduling problems.

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