| Article ID: | iaor199492 |
| Country: | India |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 47 |
| End Page Number: | 55 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
| Journal: | Journal of Information & Optimization Sciences |
| Authors: | Khumawala Basheer M., Das Sidhartha R. |
The advent of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) poses new challenges for production managers. This paper presents a four stage framework for making decisions in FMSs. It identifies issues that managers face in a flexible manufacturing environment, and offers guidelines derived from existing production-operations management (POM) practices, on appropriate ways to resolve them.