Real-time teaming of multiple reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Xingyu Li, Alparslan Emrah Bayrak, Bogdan I. Epureanu, Yoram Koren

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    Abstract

    Personalized production poses new challenges on reconfigurable manufacturing systems due to a dramatic increase in the variety and stochasticity of the manufacturing demand. This paper proposes a connected autonomous reconfigurable manufacturing system with a decentralized management of individual autonomous lines that can be reconfigured for diverse manufacturing tasks via manufacturing modules. We present a mathematical approach for distributing the stochastic demands and exchanging machines or modules among lines (which are groups of machines) as a bidding process, and for adaptively configuring these lines and machines for the resulting shared demand under a limited inventory of configurable components.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)437-440
    Number of pages4
    JournalCIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology
    Volume67
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

    Keywords

    • Decision making
    • Optimization
    • Reconfigurable manufacturing system

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