Scanning the Industry 4.0: A Literature Review on Technologies for Manufacturing Systems

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ykoren/uploads/Assembly_System_Design_and_Operations.pdf

Assembly system design and operations for product variety

In this paper, emerging technologies in the automotive assembly are discussed, along with techniques used in the vehicle assembly plants. The discussion involves technologies directly dealing with assembly processes such as handling, joining, human resources etc. as well as with supporting systems, mainly the information technologies. An overview of the existing technologies is provided. The assembly systems are unable to cope with the requirements of mass customization and need to be enriched with new technologies for a higher flexibility potential. Concepts integrating various new technologies into supporting both automated and human based assembly operations are presented and discussed versus this identified inability for mass customization. Future assembly plants need to utilize flexibility systematically, both for the system design and its operation. For this purpose, a close loop approach is discussed.

Automotive assembly technologies review: challenges and outlook for a flexible and adaptive approach

As the industrial requirements change at a rapid pace due to the drastic evolution of technology, the necessity of quickly investigating potential system alternatives towards a more efficient manuf...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207543.2019.1636321

Simulation in the design and operation of manufacturing systems: state of the art and new trends

In the past two decades, augmented reality (AR) has received a growing amount of attention by researchers in the manufacturing technology community, because AR can be applied to address a wide range of problems throughout the assembly phase in the lifecycle of a product, e.g., planning, design, ergonomics assessment, operation guidance and training. However, to the best of authors’ knowledge, there has not been any comprehensive review of AR-based assembly systems. This paper aims to provide a concise overview of the technical features, characteristics and broad range of applications of AR-based assembly systems published between 1990 and 2015. Among these selected articles, two thirds of them were published between 2005 and 2015, and they are considered as recent pertinent works which will be discussed in detail. In addition, the current limitation factors and future trends in the development will also be discussed.

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A comprehensive survey of augmented reality assembly research

Assembly support using AR technology based on automatic sequence generation

https://cyberleninka.org/article/n/708815.pdf

The Teaching Factory: A Manufacturing Education Paradigm☆

Integrating Manufacturing Education with Industrial Practice Using Teaching Factory Paradigm: A Construction Equipment Application

The job rotation enables production systems to cope with the fluctuating market demand by exploiting the benefits of flexible workforce. It provides employees with a more engaging working environment, resulting in far less monotonous and repetitive tasks. A dynamic job rotation tool is discussed that allows for the efficient allocation of assembly tasks to suitable operators, at any point of time, leading to more balanced workload distribution and thus, achieving ‘dynamic line balancing’. A hierarchical approach to multiple criteria and decision making algorithms is used for the implementation of the tool. The tool generates alternative rotation schedules and evaluates them against predefined criteria.

Dynamic job rotation for workload balancing in human based assembly systems

Augmented Reality (AR) can help close the gap between product development and manufacturing operation, mainly because of its ability to reuse and reproduce digital information and knowledge, while supporting assembly operators. This paper presents a semantic-based AR system used for the integration of the existing information and knowledge, available in CAD/PDM systems, for real-time support of the human operator. This study is supported by an algorithm used for the generation of the AR instructions based on the product and process semantics. The results are demonstrated in an automotive use-case.

Loukas Rentzos

Papers

Assembly support using AR technology based on automatic sequence generation

The Teaching Factory: A Manufacturing Education Paradigm☆

Integrating Manufacturing Education with Industrial Practice Using Teaching Factory Paradigm: A Construction Equipment Application

Dynamic job rotation for workload balancing in human based assembly systems

Augmented Reality for Human-based Assembly: Using Product and Process Semantics