What is flexible manufacturing? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Flexibility can be manifested in two aspects:

1 is the ability of the system to adapt to changes in the external environment, which can be measured by the degree to which the system meets the requirements of new products.

2. It is the ability of the system to adapt to internal changes, which can be measured by the ratio of the productivity of the system with interference (such as machine failure) to the expected productivity without interference.

1, flexibility is relative to rigidity, and the traditional rigid automatic production line mainly realizes batch production of a single variety.

2, its advantage is high productivity, because the equipment is fixed, so the equipment utilization rate is also high, and the cost of a single product is low.

3, but the price is quite expensive, only one or several similar parts can be processed, which is difficult to cope with the production of many varieties and small batches.

4. As the era of mass production is gradually replaced by the production that adapts to the dynamic changes of the market, the viability and competitiveness of a manufacturing automation system largely depend on whether it can produce different kinds of products with lower cost and higher quality in a short development cycle.

5. Flexibility occupies a very important position.