Improvements in the Solberg’s model for assessments in flexible manufacturing systems applications

Abstract

Operational problems identified in a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) can be tackled by using deterministic models, such as the bottleneck model. This model is an approach to the first steps of design since it supplies approximate estimates of the main parameters of the system. This work proposes an alternative way of assessing the workload of the handling system in FMSs as well as comparative studies applied to different case studies.