Flexible manufacturing system

Japanese: フレキシブル生産システム - フレキシブルせいさんシステム(英語表記)flexible manufacturing system
Flexible manufacturing system
FMS is an abbreviation for flexible manufacturing systems. It is also known as flexible manufacturing systems. In mechanical production, the machining of mass-produced parts was automated early on with the development of automatic machine tools and transfer machines. However, the majority of mechanical production (about 75%) involves machining the same parts at one time, with lot sizes of 500 or less, and the issue was how to automate machining for this type of high-mix, low-volume production. In the 1950s, numerically controlled machine tools became widespread, making it possible to automatically machine parts of different shapes just by changing control tapes. In the early 1960s, the DNC system (direct numerical system), a machine tool group management system that centrally controls several to several dozen numerically controlled machine tools using a central computer, was realized, and the level of automation increased even further. In the late 1960s, an automatic transport device for processed parts was added to the system, and this was marketed under the product name Flexible manufacturing system, which was the beginning of the flexible manufacturing system.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
略称FMS。フレキシブル・マニュファクチャリング・システムともいう。機械生産の中で大量生産部品の機械加工は早くから自動工作機械,トランスファーマシンの発達によって自動化されていた。しかし機械生産の大部分(約75%)は1回の同一部品加工数,ロットサイズが500個以下で,このような多品種小量生産の機械加工をどのように自動化するかが課題であった。それが1950年代になって数値制御工作機械が普及し,制御テープのかけ替えだけで異形状部品の自動加工が可能になり,1960年代の初頭には中央計算機によって数台から数十台の数値制御工作機械を集中制御する工作機械の群管理システム,DNCシステムdirect numerical systemが実現してますます自動化のレベルがあがり,1960年代後半にはそのシステムに加工部品の自動搬送装置がつけられ,これがFlexible manufacturing systemの商品名で市場に出たのがフレキシブル生産システムの始まりである。

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