Computer-Aided.Design.Engineering.and.Manufacturing P1
In recent years, the worldwide competition and the growing demand for a high variety of products have
emphasized the role of production systems. In particular the FMSs are of increasing importance because
they have the capability to face changes in production environment and to combine the efficiency of the
mass-production lines with the flexibility of job-shops producing a variety of products in small- or
medium-size batches. In any FMS, control software plays a key role since it can allow optimization of
both hardware (numerically controlled machines, material handling devices, buffers, etc.) and software
(information flow, data base content, etc.)....
