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Enable Changeability in Manufacturing Systems by Adopting a Life Cycle Perspective
Högskolan i Jönköping Tekniska Högskolan.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9800-4840
Högskolan i Jönköping Tekniska Högskolan.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4308-2678
2009 (English)In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production, October 5-7, Munich, Germany, 2009, p. 612-621Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

An overall industrial objective is to develop and operate manufacturing systems that easily can be changed according to customer requirements, production volumes, and new product generations. Such a manufacturing system needs to be developed with the manufacturing footprint in mind, comprising solutions at a conceptual and technical level that can be standardized and duplicated for new geographical locations. This demands the mindset and the incentives of the anufacturing industry to define and implement a life cycle approach when designing, thinking in system generations and recycling of solutions. It requires an integrated development process of the product and the manufacturing system with conscious planning of a ‘manufacturing systems portfolio’ that corresponds to the product portfolio. These are issues addressed in this paper with the objective to investigate available methods or tools for manufacturing system design, how they correspond to the product portfolio, and how they support life cycle perspective.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2009. p. 612-621
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
Innovation and Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-15078OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-15078DiVA, id: diva2:542187
Conference
3rd International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable andVirtual Production
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xpres
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XPRES - Initiative for excellence in production researchAvailable from: 2012-07-30 Created: 2012-07-30 Last updated: 2015-01-26Bibliographically approved
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1. Supporting the Design of Reconfigurable Production Systems
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Supporting the Design of Reconfigurable Production Systems
2012 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

To compete, manufacturing companies need production systems that quickly can respond to changes. To handle change drivers such as volume variations or new product variants, reconfigurability is advocated as a competitive means. This implies an ability to add, remove, and/or rearrange the structure of the production system to be ready for future changes. Still, it is not clear how the production system design process can capture and support the design of reconfigurable production systems. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to increase the knowledge of how to support the design of reconfigurable production systems.

Reconfigurability could be defined by a number of reconfigurability characteristics including convertibility, scalability, automatibility, mobility, modularity, integrability, and diagnosability. In eight case studies, reconfigurability characteristics in production system design were studied in order to investigate reconfigurability needs, knowledge, and practice in manufacturing companies. In three of the case studies reconfigurable production systems were studied to identify the links between change drivers and reconfigurability characteristics. In the remaining five case studies, reconfigurability in the production system design processes was addressed in terms of needs, prerequisites, and consideration.

Based on the literature review and the case studies, support for reconfigurable production system design is suggested including two parts. The first part comprises support for analyzing the need for reconfigurability. Based on relevant change drivers the need for reconfigurability must be identified to enable selection of right type and degree of reconfigurability for each specific case of application. A comprehensive view of the reconfigurability characteristics is presented and links between change drivers and reconfigurability characteristics are described. The characteristics are divided into critical characteristics, that lead to a capacity or functionality change of the production system, and supporting characteristics, that reduce system reconfiguration time but do not necessarily lead to a modification of functionality or capacity of the production system. The second part provides support in how to consider reconfigurability in the production system design process. A holistic perspective is crucial to design reconfigurable production systems and therefore constituent parts of a production system are described. According to their character physical, logical, and human reconfiguration must be considered through the whole production system design process.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Västerås: Mälardalen University, 2012
Series
Mälardalen University Press Dissertations, ISSN 1651-4238 ; 130
Keywords
production system, manufacturing system, design process, industrialization, reconfigurability, reconfigurable manufacturing system, RMS, mobility, case study, manufacturing industry
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
Innovation and Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-15131 (URN)978-91-7485-079-6 (ISBN)
Public defence
2012-10-11, Filen, Smedjegatan 37, Eskilstuna, 10:00 (Swedish)
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XPRES - Initiative for excellence in production research
Available from: 2012-08-20 Created: 2012-08-20 Last updated: 2015-01-22Bibliographically approved

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