TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring the effort of a reconfiguration process
AU - Farid, Amro M.
AU - Covanich, Wuttiphat
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638540
DO - 10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638540
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:56349139529
SN - 1424415063
SN - 9781424415069
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA
SP - 1137
EP - 1144
BT - Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2008
T2 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2008
Y2 - 15 September 2008 through 18 September 2008
ER -