A methodology for design and reconfiguration of reconfigurable bending press machines (RBPMs)

Gwangwava, Norman; Mpofu, Khumbulani; Tlale, N.S.; Yu, Yan

doi:10.1080/00207543.2014.904969

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“…A shaper machine is a machine tool which is used to remove material from the work piece in horizontal, vertical and angular surface by the use of a single-point cutting tool which is held in a ram that reciprocates Gwangwava, Mpofu, Tlale, and Yu (2014) Discussed reconfigurable issues in design architecture for modular design concepts in reconfigurable bending press machine. Maganha, Silva, and Ferreira (2018) Discussed the various principles based on reconfigurability of manufacturing system.…”

Section: Shaper Machine and Its Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Approach to Develop Shaper Cum Slotter Mechanism: A Reconfigurable Machine Tool

Singh

Asjad

Gupta

et al. 2019

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

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The traditional structure of machines (such as lathe, milling, shaper, slotter, drilling and planer) has become questionable because of the modular concepts (such as modularity, scalability, convertibility, mobility and flexibility) and reconfiguration becomes a promising approach towards modular manufacturing machines, in which manufacturing techniques are independent of changes. In this area, reconfigurable machine tool (RMT) forms a new class of modular machines in current manufacturing scenario where the manufacturing industry put a strong pressure on good quality and price reduction. The capabilities of the machines tool and manufacturing systems in reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) change with each reconfiguration (both software and hardware modules). In this case, an approach is presented for reconfiguration of horizontal shaper machine for developing the modular shaper cum slotter machine in a manufacturing system by adding some auxiliary (like Scott Russel mechanism) and some basic modules and the reconfiguration features of traditional shaper and slotter machine are also discussed. The proposed approach is illustrated with a figure, which has been designed on 3-D design tool (solid-works software platform). It is expected that, this work will help designers and practising engineers by making them aware of the reconfiguration mechanisms on traditional shaper machine, which have become a necessity for the very survival of manufacturing by lowering the operational costs.

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Section: Shaper Machine and Its Componentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Approach to Develop Shaper Cum Slotter Mechanism: A Reconfigurable Machine Tool

Singh

Asjad

Gupta

et al. 2019

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

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“…An innovative concept and development of reconfigurable machine tool had started at university of Michigan at 1999. Since then, various types of reconfigurable machine tool have been developed [22,[27][28][29][30]. The structures of this machine tool are modular in nature.…”

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A conceptual development of reconfigurable drill machine tool (RDMT)

2019

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Reconfigurable machine tools are emerging as new generation machine tools for dealing with the fluctuating market scenario and immense competition between original equipment manufacturers. New approaches, mechanism and designs principles are required for the development of these machine tools in manufacturing systems. A lot of research work has been done in reconfigurable machine tool (i.e. lathe, milling, shaper, NC, CNC etc.) but still less work has been conducted to develop reconfigurable drilling machine. This paper presents a modular approach to develop Reconfigurable Drilling Machine Tool, which will allow the machine not only to reconfigure the modules in a certain way for performing a specific task but also to develop a new type of machine which can incorporate all the features of reconfiguration for the production of multiple part families on a single platform. A module library, which includes basic and auxiliary modules, is implemented on this machine tool to explain the core features (i.e. scalability, modularity, convertibility and flexibility). Probably, this proposed design contributes a theoretical approach for the reconfiguration features of drilling machine in Reconfigurable Manufacturing System and this proposed design is illustrated through a figure, which is developed on design software (i.e. solid works platform).

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“…Since the introduction of the concept of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) by Koren et al (1999), the configuration and reconfiguration of such systems have been often discussed in the literature (Bi et al 2008;Liu and Liang 2008;Dou, Dai, and Meng 2010;Gwangwava et al 2014;Mpofu and Tlale 2014). However, these previous studies have considered different physical structures of RMS in comparison with that considered in the present paper.…”

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Decision support for design of reconfigurable rotary machining systems for family part production

Battaïa

Dolgui

Guschinsky

2016

International Journal of Production Research

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International audienceTo remain competitive in currently unpredictable markets, the enterprises must adapt their manufacturing systems to frequent market changes and high product variety. Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) promise to offer a rapid and cost-effective response to production fluctuations under the condition that their configuration is attentively studied and optimised. This paper presents a decision support tool for designing reconfigurable machining systems to be used for family part production. The objective is to elaborate a cost-effective solution for production of several part families. This design issue is modelled as a combinatorial optimization problem. An illustrative example and computational experiments are discussed to reveal the application of the proposed methodology. Insight gained would be useful to the decision makers managing the configuration of manufacturing systems for diversified products

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A methodology for design and reconfiguration of reconfigurable bending press machines (RBPMs)

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

An Approach to Develop Shaper Cum Slotter Mechanism: A Reconfigurable Machine Tool

An Approach to Develop Shaper Cum Slotter Mechanism: A Reconfigurable Machine Tool

A conceptual development of reconfigurable drill machine tool (RDMT)

Decision support for design of reconfigurable rotary machining systems for family part production

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