The RMS and FMS: Whats the difference

The ability to handle changes and quickly manage manufacturing and the Production system to compensate for external demands is becoming an important competitive factor. Meeting customer demands requires a high degree of flexibility as well as abilities to reconfigure operations for new demands. Based on literature review, various types of flexibilities are presented with a view to clarify their correspondence. This paper highlighted the merits, demerits and applications of RMS and FMS. This paper also presents the comparisons of RMS and FMS. The paper is concluded with a future research of flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing system.