Special issue on intelligent techniques in flexible manufacturing systems

Flexible manufacturing systems cover a wide range of manufacturing devices and processes. It also includes design, operation, maintenance of individual devices in the manufacturing system. Constant development in new technologies pushes to produce ever more recent and more complex products with formerly unusual functions. Production processes and production systems must also adapt to this trend. A new generation of manufacturing systems intelligent manufacturing systems, enable the implementation of increasingly demands of production processes and, at the same time, increase production efficiency.