FMS Scheduling Integration for Mass Customization

In today’s manufacturing and supply chain environments, many companies face challenge in responding to customers’ requirements quickly and providing customized products quickly at low cost. Mass customization can help companies in providing customized products and services quickly and at a low price. Integrated decision-making has been found effective in many situations. This paper reviews the scheduling research of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). The FMS scheduling problem is part of the FMS production and operation management problem. Because the production management of FMSs is very difficult, the FMS scheduling problem is very complicated. Many researchers have investigated the FMS scheduling problem. The paper summarizes the FMS scheduling research with recent development. In addition, a framework of FMS scheduling integration for mass customization is developed based on the literature survey. A control flow of FMS part processing is designed as part of the framework. Further development of the FMS scheduling integration is suggested.