Fag 3 : Manufacturing

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Fag 3 Manufacturing

• Group Members Farid Yazdani
• Yishun Tong
• Hau-Ying Chan
• Xingxing Liu

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Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)

• High quality
• Low price
• Fast
• Automatic operation
• 24 hours a day

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Advantages of FMS for petPRO

• Faster and lower cost changes
• Lower direct labor cost
• Reduced inventory
• Better quality
• Lower unit cost
• Saving from indirect labors, reduced errors,
  rework, repairs and rejects

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openFMS
openFMS

• A complete software package
• Provides various manufacturing process
• materials storage
• feeding and handling
• automated manufacturing and fabrication
• Identification, detection and tracking of sensor
  and switches
• Quality control

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Advantages

• Easy and fast to expand and customize the FMS
  system
• Fit small and mid-size company like petPRO
• Reusable logic
• Various manufacturing modules support
• 3D Graphic Display Module

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Disadvantages

• Professional 3D-Graphs design skill required
• Professional limited to systems with one robot
  tending one or two machines and quality control
  devices

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• a low cost software for flexible manufacturing
• operates on the IBM AS/400
• Transferable to Windows-based application
• Delivers integrated bar coding on the shop floor
  and inventory
• Implements time and attendance

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• Highly integrated business application with
  thirteen module package

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Advantages

• Low costs
• User friendly, easy to use, GUI interface
• Data is easily transferred
• One time and easy to setup
• Able to have a unique software

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Disadvantages

• Not have much online help features
• Requires some basic training
• - basic html experience
• - basic SQL programming

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Comparison of two software
openFMS

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Financial Comparison Chart
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Easy to use
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FUSV Comparison
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Our Decision
Go for Access/400