A Design Method for Product Family under Manufacturing Resource Constraints

Kimura, Fumihiko; Nielsen, Johan

doi:10.1016/s0007-8506(07)60068-7

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“…In order to formulate the product family, a similarity index could be established to measure the similarity between different products. Kimura and Nielsen [56] developed a framework for the relationship between product functionality and manufacturing resources. Their framework yields to a design method for product family structure, which realizes the required product functional variety with efficient utilization of manufacturing resources.…”

Section: Formulating a Product Family By Utilizing Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Principles, design, and future trends

2017

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Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs), which possess the advantages of both dedicated serial lines and flexible manufacturing systems, were introduced in the mid-1990s to address the challenges initiated by globalization. The principal goal of an RMS is to enhance the responsiveness of manufacturing systems to unforeseen changes in product demand. RMSs are costeffective because they boost productivity, and increase the lifetime of the manufacturing system. Because of the many streams in which a product may be produced on an RMS, maintaining product precision in an RMS is a challenge. But the experience with RMS in the last 20 years indicates that product quality can be definitely maintained by inserting in-line inspection stations. In this paper, we formulate the design and operational principles for RMSs, and provide a state-of-the-art review of the design and operations methodologies of RMSs according to these principles. Finally, we propose future research directions, and deliberate on how recent intelligent manufacturing technologies may advance the design and operations of RMSs.

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Section: Formulating a Product Family By Utilizing Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Principles, design, and future trends

2017

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“…Product family assembly line planning must be able to rapidly and efficiently respond to the dynamic evolution of product family such as adding, removing, and upgrading modules and changes of various planning elements such as cost and new technology introduction and fully consider the influence of dynamic quantity change of variant products, task addition or removal, operation time variation, and different solutions of module partition on task assignment and assembly line balancing schemes. In all, product family assembly line must realize balancing in the coevolution process with product family; namely, evolution balancing as shown in Figure 2, share assembly resources between product variants and even generational products to the greatest extent and provide high quality and low cost individualized products in the shortest possible time and reduce the adjustment costs of assembly line [23,24].…”

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Evolution Balancing of the Small-Sized Wheel Loader Assembly Line

Lai

Hou

2015

Shock and Vibration

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Assembly line balancing not only directly determines production efficiency but also influences precision and quality of key assemblies or even the overall performance of final products. Driven by market demand and development of science and technology, product family must evolve constantly, which necessitates frequent adjustment and rebalancing of product family assembly line (PFAL). In order to maintain production efficiency, improve assembly quality and precision, and reduce costs for adjustment, the evolution balancing problem of PFAL for small-sized wheel loader is solved in this paper. Firstly, the evolution balancing model of PFAL is put forward. Then, with minimizing the number of workstations, the in-station and between-station load indexes and adjustment costs, and maximizing relevancy between activities as optimization objectives, meanwhile regarding product platform planning, modularity design and the critical chain technology in concurrent engineering as constraint conditions, the evolution balancing problem of PFAL is optimized using improved genetic algorithm (IGA). Finally, the whole analysis procedure is demonstrated by the small-sized wheel loader PFAL case study and the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified.

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“…The line layout is shown in Fig. 3 and the task assignments are [ (1,2,4), (3,5), (6,7,8), (9,10,11)]. 3.2 Generation 2 product family and assembly system Two new modules, M12 and M13, are introduced in the second generation (Gen 2).…”

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“…When products change from one generation to another, new assembly systems must be simultaneously designed. Some researchers have previously recognized a need for product evolution or co-evolution [7][8][9][10][11]. However, systematic methods for such co-evolution have not been proposed.…”

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Co-Evolution of Product Families and Assembly Systems

Bryan

et al. 2007

CIRP Annals

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To cope with the intense global competition that is characterized by high product variety and short life cycles, manufacturers need to share manufacturing systems across products and product generations. Co-evolution of product families and assembly systems is proposed as a novel methodology for the joint design and reconfiguration of product families and assembly systems over several product generations. The co-evolution methodology capitalizes on the opportunities for design and assembly system reuse that are offered by modular product architectures and reconfigurable assembly systems. As a result, co-evolution can lead to reduced product development costs and increased responsiveness to market changes.

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A Design Method for Product Family under Manufacturing Resource Constraints

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Principles, design, and future trends

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Principles, design, and future trends

Evolution Balancing of the Small-Sized Wheel Loader Assembly Line

Co-Evolution of Product Families and Assembly Systems

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