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Flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems paradigms
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Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) as discussed by the authors are a new manufacturing systems paradigm that aims at achieving cost-effective and rapid system changes, as needed and when needed, by incorporating principles of modularity, integrability, flexibility, scalability, convertibility, and diagnosability.Abstract:
Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) is a new manufacturing systems paradigm that aims at achieving cost-effective and rapid system changes, as needed and when needed, by incorporating principles of modularity, integrability, flexibility, scalability, convertibility, and diagnosability. RMS promises customized flexibility on demand in a short time, while Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) provides generalized flexibility designed for the anticipated variations and built-in a priori. The characteristics of the two paradigms are outlined and compared. The concept of manufacturing system life cycle is presented. The main types of flexibility in manufacturing systems are discussed and contrasted with the various reconfiguration aspects including hard (physical) and soft (logical) reconfiguration. The types of changeability and transformability of manufacturing systems, their components as well as factories, are presented along with their enablers and compared with flexibility and reconfigurability. The importance of having harmonized human-machine manufacturing systems is highlighted and the role of people in the various manufacturing paradigms and how this varies in pursuit of productivity are illustrated. Finally, the industrial and research challenges presented by these manufacturing paradigms are discussed.read more
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Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Yoram Koren,Uwe Heisel,F. Jovane,Toshimichi Moriwaki,Günter Pritschow,Galip Ulsoy,H. Van Brussel +6 more
TL;DR: In the 21st century, manufacturing companies must possess new types of manufacturing systems that are cost-effective and very responsive to all these market changes as mentioned in this paper, which are the cornerstones of this new manufacturing paradigm.
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Flexibility in Manufacturing: A Survey
Andrea Krasa Sethi,Suresh Sethi +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of the literature on flexibility in manufacturing can be found in this article, where several kinds of flexibilities in manufacturing are defined carefully along with their purposes, the means to obtain them, and some suggested measurements and valuations.
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Flexibility in Manufacturing: A Survey
Andrea Krasa Sethi,Suresh Sethi +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of the literature on flexibility in manufacturing can be found in this article, where several kinds of flexibilities in manufacturing are defined carefully along with their purposes, the means to obtain them, and some suggested measurements and valuations.
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Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Key to future manufacturing
TL;DR: A review of manufacturing techniques and introduction of reconfigurable manufacturing systems; a new paradigm in manufacturing which is designed for rapid adjustment of production capacity and functionality, in response to new market conditions is presented.
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Classification of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
TL;DR: There has been some uncertainty concerning the conditions under which a manufacturing system may be termed 'flexible', so eight types of flexibilities are defined and described to clarify this confusion.