In the last decades, the manufacturing industry has been a deep transformation due the introduction of new technologies into the production system. Better improvement in the productivity and quality aspect show the importance of these technologies in modern industry. The FMS is a good example of this. The complexity of these systems creates the necessity for tools that permit to evaluate their performance. In this paper, aspects concerned to performance of the FMS systems to help a decision-maker are discussed. Special attention is given to queuing network model to evaluate design and operation of FMS. Aspects concerned to implementation of a simple model of FMS system are discussed and some results of the evaluation performance of the system using a queuing network are presented.
FMS; discrete event dynamic systems; queuing network model; performance measure; closed queuing network
