The role of buffer warehouses in selected prodution systems

In this article the most important aspects related to the specifics of production in the Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) and importance and capabilities of a sample designed model of FMS system are presented. There is also described an example of the multiversion production process-production of cars. Three major area of automobile production plants are shown, namely: body shop, paint shop and the assembly shop. This paper presents the Car Sequencing Problem (CSP), widely discussed in the literature, with reference to the three above-mentioned stages. There is pointed out the simplicity of the Car Sequencing Problem known from the literature in relation to the sequencing of vehicles on the real production lines. In addition, various types of buffer warehouses are defined and importance of loop buffer in the production of cars is discussed.