Browsing by Subject "Flexible manufacturing systems"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)This dissertation presents a cost and performance model of manufacturing systems used in the printed wiring assembly (PWA) industry. The model is evaluated in the context of the requirements of a "World Class" manufacturing ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Reliability plays a very important role in the overall performance of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Failure of a single component can easily propagate downtime throughout the entire system, giving rise to inferior ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This dissertation deals with partitioning a given tool set to different machining centers of an FMS and assigning jobs to those centers in such a way that tool traffic between machining centers is minimized. The number of ...