Production engineering

About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.

An integrated process-planning / production-scheduling shell for agile manufacturing

Abstract: Increased reliance on agile manufacturing techniques has created a demand for systems to solve integrated process-planning and production-scheduling problems in large-scale dynamic environments. To be effective, these systems should provide user-oriented interactive functionality for managing the various user tasks and objectives and reacting to unexpected events. This paper describes the mixed-initiative problem-solving features of IP3S, an Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling shell for agile manufacturing. IP3S is a blackboard -based system that supports the concurrent development and dynamic revision of integrated process-planning and production-scheduling solutions and the maintenance of multiple problem instances and solutions, as well as other flexible user-oriented decision-making capabilities, allowing the user to control the scope of the problem and explore alternate tradeoffs (“what-if ” scenarios) interactively. The system is scheduled for initial deployment and evaluation in a large and highly dynamic machine shop at Raytheon’s Andover manufacturing facility.

Manufacturing Integrated Design

Abstract: The book gives a systematic and detailed description of a new integrated product and process development approach for sheet metal manufacturing. Special attention is given to manufacturing that unites multidisciplinary competences of product design, material science, and production engineering, as well as mathematical optimization and computer based information technology. The case study of integral sheet metal structures is used by the authors to introduce the results related to the recent manufacturing technologies of linear flow splitting, bend splitting, and corresponding integrated process chains for sheet metal structures.

Research on reconfigurable manufacturing execution system

Abstract: Abstrucr Firstly, it is pointed out that the research on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Execution System (RMES) is very important for the reconfigurability of the manufacturer and popularizing MES in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of china. Secondly, the deficiencies of traditional MES are analyzed basing on the introduction of MES. Then the reconstru’ctive dimensions and layers of RMES, which include applicable scope dimension, system framework dimension, development phase dimension and reconstructive granularity dimension, are researched in detail. Finally, the development method of RMES Is discussed and the system framework based on CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and MAS (Multi-Agent System) is put forward.

Analytical performance evaluation for the design of flexible manufacturing systems

Abstract: Flexible manufacturing systems offer the potential for achieving mass-production levels of productivity in batch-type discrete parts manufacturing. However, to achieve such success, a great many critical design decisions must be properly made. This paper describes a mathematical model which is of particular value in the determining of the consequences of design decisions in the early phases of planning a system.