Abstract
Abstract The concept of Flexible Manufacturing Cells (FMC’s) proves to be one of the major productivity enhancement tools for batch processing. The cost and expertise required to set-up a cell, and subsequently to operate it, negates the many advantages of implementing FMC’s. This problem hampers the introduction of the concept in many industries. At present, combining machines from different manufacturers to form an FMC is cumbersome. Difficulties arise from incompatibility, unique characteristics and varying programming and control languages among machines. UniSet is a software environment designed to provide the FMC user a consistent platform in which to configure, program, simulate and control the FMC independent of the machines in use. The environment is coded in an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) language, Smalltalk. This paper describe UniSet and the philosophy behind it.
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