Generic alternative configurations - Definitions

POMS – Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems

• are systems dynamically reconfigured to best suit the manufacture of a single type of product or a family of similar products at a time

• in variable product demand markets.

FOMS – Function Oriented Manufacturing Systems

• referred also as process organization are statically configured systems to suit a large product variety

• where work flows between functional departments according processing requirements.

• Usually a number of different jobs, are concurrently manufactured in a complex network of workflows. High interference and production interdependence between jobs exist.