Abstract
Abstract Production feasibility, machine assignment, and machine failure in a flexible manufacturing system are studied from the perspective of formal language theory in this paper. Heterogeneous flexible flow line is introduced as the manufacturing system model. Finite state language is used to describe a flow line in terms of all the possible operation sequences that it can carry out. Issues such as production feasibility, machine assignment, and robustness can be addressed, formulated, and solved as linguistic problems. The linguistic approach presented in this paper attempts to offer new perspectives and modeling methodology in the study of manufacturing systems.
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