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Within any discrete part manufacturing environment there will always exist the three basic elements: processing, transportation, and storage. Processing might be subdivided into component processing, and assembly. Also, in a contemporary FMS environment one would attempt to minimize the storage component. Upon closer observation of the transportation component one can discern transportation within a cell and transportation between cells. The former can consist of the synchronized interaction of conveyors, robots, carousels, turntables, etc., and the machine tools. The between-cell transportation would probably consist of the flexible movement of such programmable devices as automatic guided vehicles. One can view the between-cell transportation problem as a delivery problem and the within-cell transportation problem as a sequencing control problem. Both employ elements of Artificial Intelligence. The between-cell delivery task is work-in-process part oriented and utilizes a knowledge based routing system (KBRS) which is coded in PROLOG. The within-cell strategy centers on control of the interacting materials handling equipment (conveyor, robot, etc.). A pattern recognition methodology is utilized to match real time FMS state with predefined table states.
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Moodie, C.L., BenArieh, D. (1986). Strategies for material transportation in a computer integrated manufacturing environment. In: Rathmill, K. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38009-3_23
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