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Flexible Manufacturing System Problems and Prospect for the Indonesian Automotive Industry
Technical Paper
852284
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Language:
English
Abstract
The automotive industry had been one of the pioneers in
employing mass production. Dedicated machines and transferline
production had been the character of production facilities of this
industry.
These production facilities, however, will only be competitive
for a large volume of production with efficiency in operation. The
Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is a newly developed production
system, and is still being developed further. FMS seems to be the
future production method for the newly developed automotive
industry, characterized by small volume of production and
reasonable variety, such as in Indonesia. However many problems
will arise in Indonesia for adopting this method of production.
This paper discusses these problems and some possible solutions to
overcome them.