IMPLEMENTATION OF FMS SIMULATION IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

Flexible manufacturing system is a system that is able to respond to changed conditions. In general, this flexibility is practiced in many industries. This present study explores the FMS in a virtual environment from the original real time data obtained from a selected industry. The discrete event simulation software arena is used to simulate the production data to obtain the practical approach of FMS in real time environment. The first category is the so called machine flexibility which enables to make various products by the given machinery. The second category is routing flexibility enabling to execute the same operation by various machines. Flexible manufacturing systems usually consist of three main parts: CNC machine tools, transport system and control system. The run results satisfy and match the real time results in a flexible manufacturing environment