Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) is a new manufacturing paradigm that aims to produce a great variety of products and to respond effectively to the changes in the market by providing the required capacity and functionality at any time. The main issue in RMS is the grouping of...

In many applications, robotic cells are used in repetitive production of identical parts. A robotic cell contains two or more robot-served machines. The robot can have single or dual gripper. The cycle time is the time to produce a part in the cell. We consider single part-type problems. Since...

In this paper, we deal with the problem of sequencing parts and robot moves in a robotic cell where the robot is used to feed machines in the cell. The robotic cell, which produces a set of parts of the same or different types, is a flow-line manufacturing system. Our objective is to maximize...

We consider the problem of scheduling operations in bufferless robotic cells that produce identical parts. Maximizing the long-term average throughput of parts is an important problem in both theory and practice. We define an appropriate state space required to analyze this problem and show that...

A great deal of work has been done to analyze the problem of robot move sequencing and part scheduling in robotic flowshop cells. We examine the recent developments in this literature. A robotic flowshop cell consists of a number of processing stages served by one or more robots. Each stage has...