TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring the effort of a reconfiguration processes
AU - Farid, Amro M.
AU - Covanich, Wuttiphat
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In recent years, the fields of reconfigurable manufacturing systems[24], holonic manufacturing systems[3], multi-agent systems[4] have made technological advances to support the ready reconfiguration of automated manufacturing systems. To help assess these advancements, a reconfigurability measurement process[14] has been developed based upon the complementary ideas of reconfiguration potential[14], [17], [16] and ease[14], [15]. 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 reconfigurable manufacturing systems[24], holonic manufacturing systems[3], multi-agent systems[4] have made technological advances to support the ready reconfiguration of automated manufacturing systems. To help assess these advancements, a reconfigurability measurement process[14] has been developed based upon the complementary ideas of reconfiguration potential[14], [17], [16] and ease[14], [15]. 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/INDIN.2008.4618152
DO - 10.1109/INDIN.2008.4618152
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:54849433388
SN - 9781424421718
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)
SP - 499
EP - 505
BT - Proceedings - IEEE INDIN 2008
T2 - IEEE INDIN 2008: 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics
Y2 - 13 July 2008 through 16 July 2008
ER -