TY - JOUR ID - 71396 TI - Performance Prediction of a Flexible Manufacturing System JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Baghel, K. P. S. AU - Sharma, G. C. AU - Jain, Madhu AD - Mathematics, Basic Science Institute AD - Mathematics, I.B.S, AGRA AD - Department Of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee,Roorkee,India Y1 - 2002 PY - 2002 VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 355 EP - 364 KW - Flexible Manufacturing Cell (FMC) KW - Pallet KW - Handling Device KW - Reliability KW - Common Cause Failure KW - Robot KW - Loading/Unloading DO - N2 - The present investigation presents a stochastic model for a flexible manufacturing system consisting of flexible machine, loading/unloading robot and an automated pallethandling device. We consider unreliable flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) wherein machine and robot operate under individual as well as common cause random failures. The pallethandling system is completely reliable. The pallet operation times, loading/unloading times and material handling times are considered to be random and exponentially distributed. By constructing governing equations for various system states at equilibrium, the steady-state probabilities are obtained. Some system characteristics namely utilization rate of the handling system, utilization rate of the production machine and utilization rate of the robot etc. are obtained. Some special cases are also discussed for reliable and unreliable cells. Sensitivity analysis is facilitated to examine the effect of parameters on system performance by taking numerical illustration. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_71396.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_71396_e305bd713dd4458f2392e8c7907ccae1.pdf ER -