Complexity Of Flexible Manufacturing System Research Articles

Intelligent Approach for Part Family Searching and Cutting Tool Matching in FMS

Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is an automated manufacturing system which is suitable for small and medium batch production. Usually FMS can not only satisfy existing parts machining, but also have the ability to adapt to new parts machining when the products changes with the market demand. The automation of new parts process planning is hard to achieve because of the limitation of the current CAPP technology, the complexity of FMS, and diversity of parts.To solve the problems above, this paper proposes an intelligent approach to determine machining family and cutting tool for new parts using case-based reasoning method which is based on artificial intelligence technique and artificial neural network, part family search and tool matching are the important part of CAPP especially for variant CAPP. In this new approach , first, the existing parts are considered as cases, the relationship among parts information, machining families and cutting tools from the existing parts in FMS is established by means of artificial neural network and the relational model is obtained after ANN is trained with the cases, then the two key problems, searching the machining family automatically and matching tool set from huge cutting tool group intelligently for new parts machining can be realized in FMS, This paper aims to make the existing FMS adapt to the new parts machining when market demanding changing, improve the intelligent level of FMS and the enterprise's ability to response market rapidly and provide technical support for intelligent manufacturing.

Robotic welding and robotic painting

Japanese industries have advanced manufacturing technology for thorough rationalization of manufacturing processes. This paper describes the historical background which brought the advancement of the Japanese manufacturing technology and the present status of the manufacturing technology in the automotive industry and the precision industries which are the leading industries in Japan at present. The Kanban system of Toyota Motor Co., automatic assembly and inspection line for watch production developed by the Seiko group and automatic mask aligner of Canon Inc. are explained in more detail. As for automatic machining technology and the automatic material handling technology, the present status of the NC machine tools and the robots is described. With respect to the research and development for the future, the project research of Flexible Manufacturing System Complex Provided with Laser and the VLSI Technology Research Association are introduced.

超高性能レーザ応用複合生産システムの開発研究

超高性能レーザ応用複合生産システムの開発研究

Recent trends of manufacturing technology in Japan

Japanese industries have advanced manufacturing technology for thorough rationalization of manufacturing processes. This paper describes the historical background which brought the advancement of the Japanese manufacturing technology and the present status of the manufacturing technology in the automotive industry and the precision industries which are the leading industries in Japan at present. The Kanban system of Toyota Motor Co., automatic assembly and inspection line for watch production developed by the Seiko group and automatic mask aligner of Canon Inc. are explained in more detail. As for automatic machining technology and the automatic material handling technology, the present status of the NC machine tools and the robots is described. With respect to the research and development for the future, the project research of Flexible Manufacturing System Complex Provided with Laser and the VLSI Technology Research Association are introduced.

Flexible Manufacturing System Complex Provided With Laser - A National R & D Program of Japan

This seven-year R & D program was initiated in December, 1977. The total fund is estimated, at present, as 12 billion yen. The principal object of this program is to establish manufacturing technologies which will in near future contribute to rapid and economical production of machine components in medium and small batches. This system includes the blank fabrication, machining, assembling and Laser machining subsystems. In the first four years, the stress is placed on the development of fundamental technologies in the relevant engineering fields. A model plant will be built for evaluation at the final stage. The program is now being pursued by 3 government research institutes and 20 companies.

Recent Trends of Manufacturing Technology in Japan

The Japanese industries have the advanced manufacturing technology for thorough rationalization of manufacturing processes. This paper describes the historical background which brought the advancement of the Japanese manufacturing technology and the present status of the manufacturing technology in the automotive industry and the precision industries which are the leading industries in Japan at present. The Kanban system of Toyota Motor Co., automatic assembly and inspection line for watch production developed by the Seiko group and automatic maskaligner of Canon Inc. are explained in more detail. As for automatic machining technology and the automatic material handling technology, the present status of the NC machine tools and the robots is described. With respect to the research and development for the future, the project research of Flexible Manufacturing System Complex Provided with Laser and the VLSI Technology Research Association are introduced.