OCTOBER 19-20, 2012 - YMCA University of Science & Technology

Proceedings of the National Conference on
Trends and Advances in Mechanical Engineering,
YMCA University of Science & Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, Oct 19-20, 2012
AN EFFICIENT APPROACH OF GOOD MANUFACTURING
FLEXIBILITY BY FMS AND RMS WITH MINIMIZING THE OVERALL
WASTAGE BY JIT
Virender Chahal
Department Of Mechanical Engg.,HCTM, Kaithal
e-mail: vchahal68@gmail.com
Abstract
Today, the customer demands a lot of flexibility and product to reconfigure operations for new challenges. As per the
latest manufacturing, there are so many Flexible techniques. But with this Flexibility, quality of product is also
required which is comes out by the JIT implementation. This paper study out the positive, negative and applications
of FMS, RMS and also benefit of using the JIT in manufacturing. The latest inversions in reconfigurable
manufacturing and FMS, affects our way of working. The paper is concluded with a present and future study on
flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing system by implementing of JIT in these systems. JIT stands for producing
necessary quantities as the necessary time. The ultimate aim of JIT is to concentrate on lot less, repetitive
manufacturing, with only one unit of work in process and no stock of finished goods inventories with FMS AND
RMS. In this paper, we focus on the way of manufacturing system by controlling with the help of Just In Time (JIT)
control processes. We implement the JIT for better control.
Keywords: Manufacturing systems, Self- evolution, Self- organization, Reconfigurablity, Flexibility, JIT
1. Introduction:
Manufacturing industries provides excellent manufacturing by Flexible and Reconfigurablity manufacturing systems.
But today it is not possible to give customer satisfaction without company satisfaction. So at today the concept is
used named as JIT (just in time). The ability to manage changes and quickly manufacturing and the reduce the
wastage and improve quality of the product by JIT. This paper shows the flexibility in manufacturing by RMS and
FMS and also readies the company for world level competition. Success in flexible manufacturing and in the
production system by JIT and also the main purpose is to make a continuous improvement in product quality in
development. Today, the companies must have more flexibility to make system smooth in working but during
flexibility they compromise with the quality, time and wastage of raw material. World-class manufacturing
companies have responded to these competitive demands by changing their traditional production system. To
eliminate waste and improve quality, an best approach to production & inventory control called the Just-in-Time
(JIT) system was developed by the Japanese-Taiichi Ohno, but it become famous throughout the world.Taiichi Ohno
was considered to be the creator of the Toyota Production system and the father of the JIT system. After this
implementation, number of companies follows this system for production control. And after it, first time the motor
company FORD came in front of us by both of these systems : FMS and JIT. The efficiency of the production system
is mostly dependent on the percent of flexibility as well as being able to reconfigure operations as per new demands.
The flexible manufacturing system and reconfigurable manufacturing system techniques have an important role in
manufacturing industries.
2. Various Techniques in Manufacturing System
There techniques are as follows:
FMS: FMS is defined as a group of workstations (mostly comprising of NC and CNC machine tools), interconnected
by means of an automated material handling and storage system, and controlled by computer integrated
manufacturing system(CIM). The variety of product as well as volume is increased in this technique as clear from
fig. 1. The FMS can be differentiated depending on peripherals present as:
‣ Flexible manufacturing modules (FMM)
‣ Flexible manufacturing group (FMG)
‣ Flexible manufacturing cell (FMC)
‣ Flexible manufacturing factory (FMF)
RMS: A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is a system that is designed for cost-effective Response as per
the manufacturing requirements. The motive of implementation of RMS is to be able to modify with random changes
in production requirements through reconfiguration Reconfigurable manufacturing system focus on the customer
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