Combined manufacturing lines feature a new strategy in flexible manufacturing systems

摘要

Factories with identical manufacturing lines producing equal products or workpieces offer the possibility of providing a model with combined structures. The configuration of the new model is focussed on the combination of two common identical manufacturing lines which are combined by joint buffers. Initially, this combination entails a reduction of buffer size by half which finally results in a reduction of planned buffer capacities, reduction of space required, reduced effects of failures, economically practicable increase in throughput and thus a reduction in capital expenditure.