document: Production capacity of flexible manufacturing systems with fixed production ratios Determining the production capacity of flexible manufacturing systems is a very important issue in the design of such systems . We propose an approach for determining the production capacity -LRB- i.e. the maximum production rate -RRB- of a flexible manufacturing system with several part types , dedicated pallets , and fixed production ratios among the different part types . We show that the problem reduces to the determination of a single parameter for which we propose an iterative procedure . Simulation or approximate analytical techniques can be used as the building block performance evaluation technique in the iterative procedure
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extractive_keyphrases: flexible manufacturing systems fixed production ratios production capacity maximum production rate dedicated pallets iterative procedure simulation approximate analytical techniques building block performance evaluation technique
abstractive_keyphrases: multiple part type single parameter determination stability condition numerical experiments