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Operations Management - Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS)

CAD and CAM systems have provided the means to design and plan the physical processes that will be need to manufacture the product. This is carried out on the factory floor in a way which gives rise to minimum cost, and maximum flexibility, by using the technology called Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS).

Laboratory for Large-Scale Flexible Automation

The Laboratory for Large-Scale Flexible Automation is located in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US. A project on large-scale flexible manufacturing systems is being carried out, which contains the advanced issues in the field of FMS.

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Assignment

Compare and contrast batch production systems with FMS, paying particular attention to bringing out the technical differences and the implications for competitiveness.

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