ABSTRACT

Scheduling in an flexible manufacturing systems(FMS) environment is more complex and difficult than a conventional manufacturing environment. Therefore, determining an optimal schedule and controlling an FMS is considered a difficult task. To achieve high performance for an FMS, a good scheduling system should make a right decision at a right time according to system conditions. Fuzzy logic approaches easily deal with uncertain and incomplete information, and human experts knowledge can be easily coded into fuzzy rules. Due to these reasons, fuzzy logic approaches are very effective for scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems. This work presents a review on use of fuzzy logic approaches in scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems.