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The paper is devoted to a special class of manufacturing systems with limited and balanced technological flexibility. The technologic limitation consists in selection of technologically similar classes of workpieces for machining in a particular manufacturing configuration and in elimination of special or “difficult ” parts from the automated part of the process. The special approach, described in this paper looks for classes of workpieces with very similar or even uniform handling surfaces. Unification of external handling surfaces simplifies considerably the function of handling and transport devices within the manufacturing system and avoids the use of interchangeable grippers. This makes the system more robust, reliable, practical and economical.
Within the paper, three particular flexible manufacturing systems with unified handling surfaces of workpieces, tools and fixtures are described as examples.
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Zelený, J., Grasa, P.S. (1995). Group technology considerations for manufacturing systems with balanced flexibility. In: Camarinha-Matos, L., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Balanced Automation Systems. BASYS 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34910-7_35
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