Intelligent control and integration software for flexible manufacturing cells

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-11

  Ferrolho, António ^a   Crisóstomo, Manuel ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF VISEU   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and robots; Flexible manufacturing cell (FMC); Flexible manufacturing systems; winEthernetROBOTcontrol; winMILLcontrol; winRS232ROBOTcontrol; winTURNcontrol

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL (CNC) MACHINES; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELLS (FMC);

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847734738     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2006.890529     Document Type: Article

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