A Perspective of Flexible Manufacturing System in Manufacturing Sectors

The rapid changes in customer demand force manufacturers to develop new technologies for flexibility enhancement in the manufacturing system. Different kinds of literature are available to explain the issues in the Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) and different traditional techniques employed for solving such issues. However, several new techniques have emerged in the past 25 years and no literature reviews exist to differentiate such modern approaches from traditional ones. The core purpose of this review is to study and investigate different levels of techniques involved in the effective implementation of FMS. This paper serves with some reasonable investigation of flexible issues faced in manufacturing industries such as scheduling, machine loading, material handling, and decision-making stage. For each manufacturing issue, the emerged manufacturing techniques are described in this review. This will also help future researchers interested in doing their research work in the area of FMS. It provides information to develop the best model for solving issues of the observed FMS problem. This paper contains the details of issues related to flexibility in manufacturing sectors with its resolving techniques that are reviewed and symbolized between the years 2000 and 2021.