Optimization of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) for high technology product producing factory via the modularizations of production systems
Prashobh Karunakaran, Mohd Shahril Bin Osman · Unimas Institutional Repository (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak) · 2012
The objective of this research is to justify the utilization of buffers in High Technology Product Producing Factories (HTPPF) especially in the hard disk industry. This is significantly different from the trend in other industries such as canned food or car, where machines are joined and the process are continuous from start to end. In the latter industries, buffers are counted as stock and a waste, but in HTPPF, buffers are critically important to enable research activities to achieve daily upgrade of the Key Quality Characteristics (KQC) of the product.