IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT 2000), Singapore, Singapore, 12 - 15 November 2000, pp.843-847
in recent years, the companies concerned with Flexible Manufacturing Systems(FMS), because of requirements about low volume production, short product life, availability of the new products for the market in a short time and flexibility of design and production management. A Flexible Manufacturing System is a set of computer-numerically controlled machine tools connected by an automatic material handling system and all controlled by a central computer system.