Sufficient conditions for a flexible manufacturing system to be deadlocked

Abstract: In recent years, researchers have been interested in scheduling algorithms to avoid deadlock in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). FMS are discrete event systems characterized by the availability of resources to produce a set of products. Raw parts, which belong to various product types, enter the system at discrete times and are processed concurrently while sharing a limited number of resources. In such systems, a situation may occur in which parts become permanently block. This is called deadlock. This paper presents the sufficient conditions for deadlock to exist in a FMS; it models a FMS using digraphs to calculate slack, knot, order and space; it identifies three types of circuits that are fundamental in determining if a FMS is in deadlock.

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 Deering, P. (2012). Sufficient conditions for a flexible manufacturing system to be deadlocked.International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations , 3(1), 53-62.

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