Critical Analysis of Scalability of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing Systems Design ◽

Research Contribution ◽

Engineering Firms ◽

Product Specification

Due to the rapidly increasing industrial competition in the globe, it has now become fundamental of engineering firms to implement fundamental industrial approaches, which promptly and reliably focusses on sudden transformation of the design of engineered products. Emergent strategies, which might allow forms to cope up with the quickly transforming changes of product specification is centered on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMSs). This research contribution discusses the significance of the presently available scalable Manufacturing Systems (MSs) that allows engineering firms to meet the demands of the market quickly. RMSs have to be designed on the outset of the futuristic scalability to allow its cost-effective and prompt expansion according to the demands of the globe. As such, this research contribution provides the principles to given manufacturing systems’ design to enhance scalability.

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Design for a Contract Manufacturer Using a Co-operative Co-evolutionary Multi-agent Approach

Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing ◽

10.1007/978-1-84882-287-0_5 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 117-136

Author(s):

Nathan Young ◽

Mervyn Fathianathan

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Systems ◽

Systems Design ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Manufacturing Systems Design

Design for Sustainability and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems - An Critical Analysis

Journal of Machine and Computing ◽

10.53759/7669/jmc202101002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 11-19

Author(s):

Francisco Pedro

Keyword(s):

Critical Analysis ◽

Manufacturing Systems ◽

Manufacturing System ◽

Cellular Manufacturing ◽

Fundamental Factor ◽

Design For Sustainability ◽

Design Result

Manufacturing Systems (MS) are a fundamental means of establishing profitable engineering operations in mechanical firms. The technical and physical structures of MS determine the dimension of adaption and signify the measure of freedom of engineers of MS. This contribution discusses the Reconfiguring Cellular Manufacturing System (RCMS) concept, which considers the design of systems as cyclical activities whereby the makers of decisions can determine the MS’s system capacities and capabilities. The standard methodologies to support the design of MS are optimization and analysis of MS. The timeframe essential for evaluating numerous designs is a fundamental factor, which can also discourage the application of these systems. Resultantly, there is a threat of missed assessment of suitable designs when the number and quality of the solution users being assessed is based on the users’ intuition with respect to the potential design result.

Optimal Part Family and Production Module Planning for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Parts A and B ◽

10.1115/msec2006-21070 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jian Liu ◽

Derek M. Yip-Hoi ◽

Wencai Wang ◽

Li Tang

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Systems ◽

Optimization Procedure ◽

Cost Effective ◽

System Level ◽

Market Demand ◽

Individual Module ◽

Reconfiguration Planning ◽

And Performance

Manufactures are adopting Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) to better cope with frequently changing market conditions, which place tremendous demands on a system’s flexibility as well as its cost-effectiveness. Considerable efforts have been devoted to the development of necessary tools for the system level design and performance improvement, resulting in approaches to designing a single RMS. In this paper, a methodology for cost-effective reconfiguration planning for multi-module-multi-product RMS’s that best reflect the market demand changes is proposed. Formulated as an optimization procedure, reconfiguration planning is defined as the best reallocation of part families to production modules in an RMS and the best rebalancing of the whole system and each individual module to achieve minimum related cost and simultaneously satisfy the market demand. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) approach is proposed to overcome the computational difficulties caused by the problem complexity. Effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated with a case study.

Quality, Reliability and Maintenance (Q, R & M) Issues in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS)

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.110-116.1442 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 110-116 ◽

pp. 1442-1446 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dodla Srikanth ◽

M. S. Kulkarni

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Systems ◽

Production Capacity ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Life Cycles ◽

New Variety ◽

Machine Reliability ◽

Maintenance Plan

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) have the potential to emerge as a cost effective solution that will help manufacturing organizations to stay competitive in an environment where product mix changes frequently and product life cycles are getting shorter. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems can achieve this as they are designed for quick changes in its configuration, as well as software and hardware components. This not only helps in accommodating production capacity but also production of new variety of products and introduction of new product within part family. However, the configurations have a significant impact on the productivity and reliability of the machines and the manufacturing system. In the present paper, the main objective is to present a framework consisting of Maintenance plan to be followed for the reconfigured machine, Reliability of the reconfigured machine, Quality of the product obtained. This framework can form as the basic idea and a link between maintenance, reliability and quality issues.