/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, a computer simulation model of the existing CIM system is developed to test the performance of … flexibility of the model allows experimenting with additional factors and levels. In the simulation experiments of this research … study the effect of the dispatching rules on the performance of the CIM systems with use of terminating simulation analysis …

Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) readily addresses the dynamic needs of the customers in terms of variety and … for effective scheduling of an FMS, as it directly affects completion time. On the other hand, constant batch size makes … MTO less responsive to customers’ demands. In this paper, an FMS scheduling problem with n jobs and m machines is studied …