caa a22 4500 475798864 CHVBK 20180406123731.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s001700070044 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s001700070044 Reliability Optimisation of FMS with Spare Tooling [Elektronische Daten] [A. A. Altumi, A. M. Philipose, S. M. Taboun] Tool reliability plays an important role in the performance and justification of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Failure of a single tool can cause downtimes over the entire system. This results in missing due dates, and inferior products. Therefore, in order to justify the large capital investment associated with FMS, the system must perform in a reliable manner to give an acceptable or expected rate of return on capital. FMS reliability should be studied at the planning and design stages, as tool failures pose a major obstacle to achieving this objective. In this paper, a mathematical model has been developed to determine the spares requirement of the tooling system in an FMS, so that the desired system reliability is achieved and the cost is minimised. The influence of tool sharing on cost, reliability, spares requirement, and tool magazine capacity of the FMS are analysed. The tools and tool transporter are subject to general failure distributions.: Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2000 Keywords:Flexible manufacturing systems nationallicence Nonlinear integer programming nationallicence Reliability optiminisation nationallicence Spare requirements nationallicence Tool sharing nationallicence Altumi A. A. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada, CA aut Philipose A. M. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada, CA aut Taboun S. M. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada, CA aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s001700070044 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s001700070044 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Altumi A. A. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada, CA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Philipose A. M. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada, CA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Taboun S. M. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada, CA aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer