Assembly system design and operations for product variety
TL;DR: A review of the state of the art research in the areas of assembly system design, planning and operations in the presence of product variety is presented in this article, where methods for assembly representation, sequence generation and assembly line balancing are reviewed and summarized.
About: This article is published in CIRP Annals.The article was published on 2011-01-01. It has received 479 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mass customization & Remanufacturing.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of managing product variety throughout the entire product life cycle, and the effective co-development of variants and their manufacturing systems to ensure economic sustainability.
Abstract: A great challenge facing industry today is managing variety throughout the entire products life cycle. Drivers of products variety, its benefits, pre-requisites and associated complexity and cost are presented. Enhancing consumers’ value through variety and approaches for achieving it efficiently including modularity, commonality and differentiation are discussed. Variant-oriented manufacturing systems paradigms, as enablers of product variety, and the effective co-development of variants and their manufacturing systems to ensure economic sustainability are reviewed. Industrial applications and guidelines to achieve economy of scope with advantages of economy of scale are discussed. Perspectives and insights on future research in this field are offered.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the complexity of the design process, products, manufacturing, and business, and discuss the nature and sources of complexity in these areas, and complexity modeling and management approaches are discussed.
Abstract: This paper reviews the breadth of complexity of the design process, products, manufacturing, and business. Manufacturing is facing unprecedented challenges due to increased variety, market volatility and distributed global manufacturing. A fundamental residue of globalization and market uncertainty is the increasing complexity of manufacturing, technological and economic systems. The nature and sources of complexity in these areas are reviewed and complexity modeling and management approaches are discussed. Enterprises that can mitigate the negative aspects of complexity while managing its positives should thrive on the continuous change and increasing complexity. To reap these benefits in the future, manufacturing companies need to not only adopt flexible technical solutions but must also effectively innovate and manage complex socio-technical systems.
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TL;DR: The development of a smart delivery drone is presented as an idealized CBDM example scenario and a corresponding CBDM system architecture is proposed that incorporates CBDM-based design processes, integrated manufacturing services, information and supply chain management in a holistic sense.
Abstract: Cloud-based design manufacturing (CBDM) refers to a service-oriented networked product development model in which service consumers are enabled to configure, select, and utilize customized product realization resources and services ranging from computer-aided engineering software to reconfigurable manufacturing systems. An ongoing debate on CBDM in the research community revolves around several aspects such as definitions, key characteristics, computing architectures, communication and collaboration processes, crowdsourcing processes, information and communication infrastructure, programming models, data storage, and new business models pertaining to CBDM. One question, in particular, has often been raised: is cloud-based design and manufacturing actually a new paradigm, or is it just "old wine in new bottles"? To answer this question, we discuss and compare the existing definitions for CBDM, identify the essential characteristics of CBDM, define a systematic requirements checklist that an idealized CBDM system should satisfy, and compare CBDM to other relevant but more traditional collaborative design and distributed manufacturing systems such as web- and agent-based design and manufacturing systems. To justify the conclusion that CBDM can be considered as a new paradigm that is anticipated to drive digital manufacturing and design innovation, we present the development of a smart delivery drone as an idealized CBDM example scenario and propose a corresponding CBDM system architecture that incorporates CBDM-based design processes, integrated manufacturing services, information and supply chain management in a holistic sense. We present a new paradigm in digital manufacturing and design innovation, namely cloud-based design and manufacturing (CBDM).We identify the common key characteristics of CBDM.We define a requirement checklist that any idealized CBDM system should satisfy.We compare CBDM with other relevant but more traditional collaborative design and distributed manufacturing systems.We describe an idealized CBDM application example scenario.
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...According to the existing definitions for CBDM presented in Section 1, Table 4 lists some common key characteristics of CBDM and compares CBDM with other relevant distributed design and manufacturing systems....
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TL;DR: This contribution investigates a new paradigm from machine learning, namely deep machine learning by examining design configurations of deep Convolutional Neural Networks and the impact of different hyper-parameter settings towards the accuracy of defect detection results.
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TL;DR: In this article, the development of the paradigms of manufacturing, including mass production, mass customization and the emerging paradigm of personalization, is discussed and the role of the consumer in each paradigm is compared.
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01 Oct 1992TL;DR: The authors reviewed the book "Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition" by B. Joseph Pine II and found it to be a good introduction to the field of customization.
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