本文介绍了用虚拟仪器（VIs）控制的微型柔性制造系统（mini FMS）的开发，以及VIs作为开发FMS控制软件工具的可行性。VIs是用LabVIEW开发的。这个项目的目标是帮助学生将他们在课堂上学到的概念与他们在现实世界中的体验联系起来。为此，他们得到了一个开放式项目，来建造一个小型FMS。

This paper presents the development of a miniature flexible manufacturing system (mini-FMS) controlled by using virtual instruments (VIs), and the feasibility of VIs as a tool for the development of the FMS control software. The VIs were developed with LabVIEW. The objective of this project was helping students make the connections between the concepts they learned in class and their real world experience. To this end, an open-ended project was given them to construct a mini-FMS.