Evaluation of the routing flexibility of a manufacturing system

Jose Eloundou (1) , M'Hammed Sahnoun (2) , Anne Louis (2) , David Baudry (2) , Abdelaziz Bensrhair (1)

1 LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes
2 LINEACT - Laboratoire d'Innovation Numérique pour les Entreprises et les Apprentissages au service de la Compétitivité des Territoires

The current competitive and dynamic economic context, requires to manufacturing companies to be reactive and dynamic. For that, they should get a flexible manufacturing system able to change the production plan easily and economically. A good Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) must have a transportation system able to support a dynamic scheduling and potential failure of the manufacturing system. In this paper, we present a methodology for the dynamic evaluation of the routing flexibility of a manufacturing system. This methodology is based on the computation of entropy and uses Coloured Petri Net model and simulation. We have two objectives:(1) the development of a simulation model able to forecast the level of flexibility of a FMS before its implementation, (2) the definition of an indicator for measuring flexibility. For illustrating our methodology we take an example of a flexible job shop of four machines and one transport resource.

Mots clés: routing flexibility; Manufacturing Systems; Evaluation

Domaines: Autre

Jose Eloundou, M'Hammed Sahnoun, Anne Louis, David Baudry, Abdelaziz Bensrhair. Evaluation of the routing flexibility of a manufacturing system. Xème Conférence Internationale : Conception et Production Intégrées, Dec 2015, Tanger, Morocco. ⟨hal-01260680⟩