Reconfigurable Manufacturing System - RMS Characteristics

RMS Characteristics

Ideal Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems possess six core characteristics: Modularity, Integrability, Customized flexibility, Scalability, Convertibility, and Diagnosability. These characteristics, which were introduced by professor Yoram Koren in 1995, apply to the design of whole manufacturing systems, as well as to some of its components – reconfigurable machines, their controllers, and also to the system control software.