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Modelling the factors affecting flexibility in FMS

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  • Tilak Raj
  • Rajesh Attri
  • Vineet Jain

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Today's dynamic market has forced the manufacturing managers to take interest in flexibility which bestows on an industry to respond promptly to market opportunities and changing technologies. The development of capabilities to be flexible rests on the mandate of top management, helps industries to manage market uncertainties and tends to enhance manufacturing performance. Manufacturing organisations are looking at flexible manufacturing system (FMS) as a viable alternative to enhance their competitive edge. There are, however, some factors affecting the flexibility of FMS. The aim of this research is to analyse and identify those factors which influence some other factors in a big way (called driving factors) and those which are most influenced by the others (called dependent factors). In this paper, these factors have been identified through literature, their ranking is done by a questionnaire-based survey and interpretive structural modelling (ISM) approach has been utilised in analysing their mutual relationships. An ISM model of these factors has been prepared to identify some key factors and their managerial implications.

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  • Tilak Raj & Rajesh Attri & Vineet Jain, 2012. "Modelling the factors affecting flexibility in FMS," International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 11(4), pages 350-374.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:11:y:2012:i:4:p:350-374
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    1. Jain, Vineet & Raj, Tilak, 2016. "Modeling and analysis of FMS performance variables by ISM, SEM and GTMA approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(P1), pages 84-96.
    2. Sandhya Dixit & Tilak Raj, 2018. "A Hybrid MADM Approach for the Evaluation of Different Material Handling Issues in Flexible Manufacturing Systems," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-19, November.
    3. Rajesh Attri & Sandeep Grover, 2017. "Modelling the quality enabled factors of facility layout design stage of production system life cycle," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 8(1), pages 413-423, January.
    4. Suman Gothwal & Tilak Raj, 2017. "Analyzing the factors affecting the flexibility in FMS using weighted interpretive structural modeling (WISM) approach," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 8(2), pages 408-422, June.

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