Track: Operations Management and Operations Research

Abstract

The development of production systems, coupled with the growing demands of the market, brings the need for changes in the industry. The transition from flexible manufacturing systems to reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) today gives companies a high adaptability. The existence of reconfigurable machine tools (RMT) that simplify processes and in turn lower the producing costs set or product family is the main feature of these systems. There are many studies on RMS today. This has led to a large number of investigations related to the RMT manufacture and its characteristics. On the other hand, a neglected element in relation to this type of machines is the research lack that addresses the optimization of the production in workshops that possess these RMT. The present research work has the characterizing task of the evolution of the RMT study, deepening in the subjects related to the production planning as element for the process optimization. In turn, an analysis of the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) and the existence of modeling cases of the RMT with this problems type.