Flexible manufacturing is one of the advanced manufacturing technology. People attach great importance to it after rising from 1960s. Nevertheless, it was popularly used in national institutions and multinational corporations, but not in the Small and medium-sized corporations which take a key part of manufacturing enterprises. The manufacturing is the most seriously affected by global economic crisis, so one of the solutions of overcoming the economic crisis is to explore flexible manufacturing system positively used in manufacturing.
Firstly, by introducing flexible manufacturing, this paper will show discuss the definition and sort and key technologies of AMT, and so on. Secondly, identify the problems according to the state of systems in domestic, and then solve them using the theory of flexible manufacturing system. Finally, state the superiorities of the production line after being improved by flexible manufacturing system by examples about the design of the flexible production lines and the facilities planning and executivging etc.
KEYWORDS: Flexible Manufacturing System， Production line， AMT，Number Control
