Measuring the effort of a reconfiguration process

Amro M. Farid, Wuttiphat Covanich

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    Abstract

    In recent years, the fields of reeonfigurable manufacturing systems[26], holonic manufacturing systems[3], multiagent systems[4] have made technological advances to support the ready reconfiguration of automated manufacturing systems. To help assess these advancements, a reconfigurability measurement process[16] has been developed based upon the complementary ideas of reconfiguration potential[16],[18] and ease[16], [17]. This work measured the reconfigurability of an automated manufacturing system as an intrinsic property of the system's structure. However, it did not explicitly measure the effort required to realize a reconfiguration process. This paper recombines the concepts of reconfiguration potential and reconfiguration ease to measure the effort required to realize a specific class of reconfiguration processes. The theoretical developments are then demonstrated in an illustrative example. The paper concludes with a discussion of potential implications on adjacent research.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2008
    Pages1137-1144
    Number of pages8
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2008
    Event13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2008 - Hamburg, Germany
    Duration: 15 Sep 200818 Sep 2008

    Publication series

    NameIEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

    Conference

    Conference13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2008
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityHamburg
    Period15/09/0818/09/08

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