Developing and Sustaining Flexible Integrated Manufacturing for Future Manufacturing Perspectives

Although CIM or Agile manufacturing can be understood as a flexible market-adaptive manufacturing system to respond customer needs quickly, more innovative manufacturing system toward future must be able to play a large part in a company with human beings and the fulfillment of environment preserving as well as accomplishing global manufacturing to achieve lower costs with better quality and minimal resources at faster speeds. A flexible integrated manufacturing (FIM) system, which was christened by authors, towards a new vision of the future manufacturing system needs to possess these requirements while achieving superior performance through thriving an integrated autonomous cellular manufacturing.