Effect of Scheduling rules on performance of Semi Automated Flexible Manufacturing System

Abstract

This work presents a impact of commonly used scheduling rules on performance of Semi Automated Flexible Manufacturing System. A semi automated Flexible Manufacturing system is low cost alternative to FMS, which provide most of features of Flexible Manufacturing System at an affordable cost. The performance of such system is highly dependent upon the efficient allocation of the limited resources available to the tasks and hence it is strongly affected by the effective choice of scheduling rules. Out of the many scheduling rules and processes, paper examines the most commonly used scheduling rules at different levels of Automation.