Future of the Manufacturing Systems

This article describes basic information about future of manufacturing systems. In the introductory section there are described trends that will create future concept of manufacturing systems. These trends are also described. Currently existing, advanced software solutions allow to faster accurate data and information exchange, facilitate planning and monitoring during manufacturing processes. The article provides also problems of current manufacturing lines via core characteristics of reconfigurability and their application to particular problems of designing and optimization of manufacturing configuration. Based on these characteristics was created a methodology for the designing of the reconfigurable manufacturing line configuration