Tool Management in Flexible Manufacturing Systems

FMS 에서의 공구관리에 관한 연구

Tooling is now considered as a major limiting resource for highly automated manufacturing systems to be operated unattendedly. In this paper, various issues in tooling are introduced and discussed. The importance of appropriate selection of tooling strategies is discussed and simulation experiments are performed to see how the tooling strategies affect the system performance in automated manufacturing systems. This paper also presents a tool management system developed in Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials.