MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY VERSUS PRODUCTIVITY

Abstract

Flexibility is the system's ability to manage production resources and its ability to
react to external and internal changes that occur. The flexible manufacturing
system (FMS) generates high costs and investments that must be recovered in the
shortest possible time. For a long time, research has focused on increasing
productivity by increasing the performance of cutting tools and machine tool
performance (cutting speed, power, rigidity, etc.). The results have not confirmed a
substantial increase in productivity. The solution to productivity problems should
not be sought in the actual machining but in the operations adjacent to machining
(fixing, clamping, basing, measuring, transport, feeding tools and devices,
adjustments, etc.). Starting with the 90s, flexibility versus productivity has become a
challenge for the machining system