Recent Trends of FMS

Based upon the problem environment, various new trends have been accommodated with FMS to accord with the needs of highly customized production, low production cost, high flexibility, and low lead time. Some of these recent developments in the field of manufacturing sector made to stack up against the competitive market scenario are given below:         

(i) Production Planning and Control (PPC):

This is concerned with the logistic problems that are encountered in manufacturing procedure. It includes the details of what and how many products to generate and when to get the raw materials, parts and resources to generate those products.

 (ii) Master Production Schedule (MPS):

This is a list of the product to be manufactured, while they should be completed & delivered, and in what quantities. The master schedule should be based on the accuracy of demand & realistic assessment of the company's production capacity.

 (iii) Material Requirements Planning (MRP) :

This is a planning technique, often implemented by computer, that translates the MPS of end products into a detailed scheduled for the raw materials & parts utilized in those end products. MRP is frequently thought of as a method of inventory control. Though, its implementation is complicated because of the sheer magnitude of data to be processed. For instance, several components might be made out of the similar gauge sheet metal, the component are assemble to simple sub assemblies, and these sub assemblies are put together into more complicated sub assemblies, and so on, until the final products are assembled. Each step in the manufacturing & assembly sequence takes time. All of these factors must be incorporated with the MRP calculations that make it a complexes one.

 (iv) Just in Time (JIT):

This refers to a scheduling discipline in which materials & parts are delivered to the next production line station just prior to their being utilized. In this type of discipline, it tends to decrease inventory and other kinds of waste manufacturing. The ideal JIT production system produces & delivers exactly the needed number of each component to the downstream operation in the manufacturing sequence just at the time while that component is needed.

(v) Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) :

This is defined as a computer based system for planning, scheduling, & controlling the materials, resources, and supporting activities required to meet the MPS. The recent generations of MRP II such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer oriented manufacturing management systems (COMMS) , manufacturing execution system (MES), etc. have found great applications in the areas of quality control, customer field service, maintenance management,  supply chain management, and product data management.

 (vi) E-manufacturing:

In the modern manufacturing system, internet has enabled the manufacturers in such kind of way that the lead time of the manufacturing of the products have come down and the quality of the product has been improved.