Performance analysis of a flexible manufacturing system based on master-slave mesh multibus high performance computer architecture

This paper outlines the aspects of architectural design of the parallel processing system applicable to flexible manufacturing system (FMS). Incorporating parallel processing systems design into such an environment fulfils customers' requirements and results in improvements in speed, accuracy and reliability of the system. This provides a high level of capability for achieving high performance and robustness in the demanding automation control systems, and machine tool industries. The performance analysis and the simulation results are included for comparison purposes. Fault tolerance, flexibility and self-reconfigurability of the overall system is further improved by incorporating artificial intelligence and expert system in the body of data base management system.