1. Preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: VII - VIII

2. Acknowledgements

   Acknowledgments Pages: IX - X

3. Manufacturing technology policy and deployment of processing innovations

   • John E. Ettlie

   I. Strategic, Economic And Flexibility Aspects Pages: 1 - 20

4. Rigid and flexible automation for manufacturing systems: Characterizing economically-reasonable investments

   • Michael C. Burstein

   I. Strategic, Economic And Flexibility Aspects Pages: 21 - 35

5. The acquisition of new technology and its impact on a firm's competitive position

   • Cheryl Gaimon

   I. Strategic, Economic And Flexibility Aspects Pages: 37 - 63

6. Measurement of loading and operations flexibility in flexible manufacturing systems: An information-theoretic approach

   • Vinod Kumar

   I. Strategic, Economic And Flexibility Aspects Pages: 65 - 80

7. Design rules of flexible assembly and inspection cells

   • Paul G. Ranky

   II. Design Problems Pages: 81 - 109

8. Espfas — A prototype expert system for technological planning in robot-based flexible assembly systems

   • K. Tierney
   • R. Bowden
   • J. Browne

   II. Design Problems Pages: 111 - 130

9. Stochastic design optimization of asynchronous flexible assembly systems

   • Chih-Ming Liu
   • Jerry L. Sanders

   II. Design Problems Pages: 131 - 154

10. Allocating a joint setup in a multi-cell system

    • David D. Yao
    • J. George Shanthikumar

    II. Design Problems Pages: 155 - 167

11. Impact of flexible machines on automated manufacturing systems

    • J. A. Buzacott
    • Diwakar GUPTA

    II. Design Problems Pages: 169 - 205

12. An efficient method to determine the optimal configuration of a flexible manufacturing system

    • Yves Dallery
    • Yannick Frein

    II. Design Problems Pages: 207 - 225

13. Machine utilizations achieved using balanced FMS production ratios in a simulated setting

    • Thomas J. Schriber
    • Kathryn E. Stecke

    III. Production Planning Pages: 227 - 267

14. Integrated production scheduling in large-scale flexible electronic parts manufacturing

    • Javad H. Ahmadi
    • Agha Iqbal ALI

    III. Production Planning Pages: 269 - 287

15. Optimal dynamic routing in Flexible Manufacturing Systems with limited buffers

    • Abraham Seidmann

    IV. Scheduling And Control Aspects Pages: 289 - 311

16. A supervisory control paradigm for real-time control of flexible manufacturing systems

    • Jane C. Ammons
    • T. Govindaraj
    • Christine M. Mitchell

    IV. Scheduling And Control Aspects Pages: 313 - 335

17. Scheduling flexible machining and assembly systems

    • Andrew Kusiak

    IV. Scheduling And Control Aspects Pages: 337 - 352

18. A pattern-directed approach to FMS scheduling

    • Michael J. Shaw

    IV. Scheduling And Control Aspects Pages: 353 - 376