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Production engineering
About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define complexity at the workstation level and propose a complexity measure for mixed-model assembly workstations based on data from several leading automotive companies from Belgium and Sweden.
Abstract: In an effort to maintain or increase their market share and at the same time prevent costs from escalating, manufacturing organisations are increasingly using their current manufacturing system to produce custom output. As a consequence, the large number of product variants increases significantly the complexity of manufacturing systems, both for the operators as for the support services. This is especially true in automotive industry, where customisation is increasing at a rapid pace. To counter the ensuing loss of productivity, a more fundamental approach to dealing with this complexity in manufacturing processes is required. In order to investigate the impact of complexity on production performance, one must first delineate the concept and then identify as unambiguously as possible highly complex workstations. This article defines complexity at the workstation level and proposes a complexity measure for mixed-model assembly workstations. Based on data from several leading automotive companies from Belgium and Sweden, some statistical models are proposed to characterise workstations complexity. The models are described and their validity and accuracy are discussed.
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TL;DR: The challenges faced by the chemical engineering community can only be met if both organisations carrying out basic research and R&D departments focussed on applied research within companies must be at the cutting edge of technology as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: In this article, the main steps towards an open and adaptive simulation method for human-robot collaboration (HRC) in production engineering supported by virtual reality (VR) are outlined. And the work is based on the work presented in this paper.
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TL;DR: In the last few years, concurrent engineering has become a very prevalent topic in the area of manufacturing engineering as mentioned in this paper, and it has been viewed as one of the most effective, potential, and miracu...
Abstract: In the last few years, Concurrent Engineering (CE) has become a very prevalent topic in the area of manufacturing engineering. It has been viewed as one of the most effective, potential, and miracu...
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01 Sep 2007
TL;DR: A new approach and corresponding tools for the design, development and application of modular virtual virtual Web based production automation devices is presented, showing that the initial requirements for the use of flexible reconfigurable devices in production are completely supported by the proposed approach.
Abstract: Based on the integration of the service-oriented architecture (SoA) paradigm and existing 2D/3D based engineering systems, a new approach and corresponding tools for the design, development and application of modular virtual Web based production automation devices is presented in this paper. As apart of a 3D product lifecycle management (PLM) solution, Delmia automation was used to model the SoA environment, which brought the engineering of SoA to a complete workflow from the design of a product throughout the engineering of the production system. First developments have been applied to three pilot applications: a single virtual device, a mixed environment with one virtual and one real device, and finally an example of multiple virtual devices and instantiation on reusable components, thus showing that the initial requirements for the use of flexible reconfigurable devices in production are completely supported by the proposed approach.
42 citations