Control of Reconfigurable Machine Tools

Pritschow, Günter; Wurst, Karl-Heinz; Kircher, Christian; Seyfarth, M.

doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-067-8_4

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“…Classified the different modules, namely configuration and reconfiguration module, loading module and simulation-based scheduling module in RMS. Pritschow, Wurst, Kircher, and Seyfarth (2009) Discussed the different machine controller for changing the reconfiguration in CNC and Numerical Control (NC) machine in manufacturing system. Hincapié (2011) Proposed the various reconfiguration principles for changing conventional machine to reconfigurable.…”

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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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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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“…RMTs are tailored to the initial operation requirements and when operation requirements change, RMTs may be cost-effectively converted and customized for the new requirements. Consequently, controllers for RMTs must be based on the concept of openarchitecture [14] [15]. When referring to open-architecture control, the software architecture is modular, thus hardware components and software components can be easily added or removed and the controller can be cost-effectively reconfigured.…”

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Development of a software application for machine tool reconfiguration using a knowledge-based engineering system approach

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Guemes

Contero

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IOS PressHincapie, M.; Guemes, D.; Contero González, MR.; Ramirez, M.; Diaz, C. (2016). Development of a software application for machine tool reconfiguration using a knowledgebased engineering system approach. AbstractThe automation processes industry has become increasingly expensive, which is why some small and medium sized enterprises are incapable of buying machine tools with automatic systems. This means that their processes are manual in many cases, and as a result they often have to rework their developed products due to the lack of precision and efficiency in their production processes. Considering that current manufacturing systems with variable machining and turning centers are gradually replacing dedicated systems for medium lot size production, the production systems' basic element, the machine tool, must be capable of working at high speeds with precision, and it must be reconfigurable. These systems must also be compatible and convertible in order to create economic benefits for customers. This article describes a specific software architecture designed to record all the data, information and knowledge concerning manufacturing systems. The software allows for the creation of a new knowledge database and works with it in the reconfiguration of machine tools depending on the rules, requirements and parameters needed to effectively modify production processes or products.

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“…However, there is still a considerable gap between the global product development requirements and the solutions efficiency to fulfil them (Paolucci and Sacile 2005;Tseng, Kao, andHuang 2008, Terkaj, Tolio, andValente 2009;Pritschow et al 2009;ElMaraghy and Meselhy 2009;Hesmer, Duin and Thoben 2011;Xu 2012). However, there is still a considerable gap between the global product development requirements and the solutions efficiency to fulfil them (Paolucci and Sacile 2005;Tseng, Kao, andHuang 2008, Terkaj, Tolio, andValente 2009;Pritschow et al 2009;ElMaraghy and Meselhy 2009;Hesmer, Duin and Thoben 2011;Xu 2012).…”

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“…Integration of manufacturing operations over the globe to achieve manufacturing efficiency One of the essential requirements to approach the global manufacturing paradigm is related to digital manufacturing and computer-integrated manufacturing systems (Rudberg and Olhager 2003;Paolucci and Sacile 2005;Zhou, Qiu, et al 2007;Tseng, Kao, and Huang 2008;Terkaj, Tolio, and Valente 2009;Pritschow et al 2009;ElMaraghy and Meselhy 2009;Hesmer, Duin and Thoben 2011;Zhang et al 2011;Xu 2012). The integration of manufacturing operations through enterprises is proposed to be essential for increasing the competitiveness and the ability of the enterprises for a time-efficient response to demand fluctuations in the market (Patel et al 2006;Feng and Wu 2009;Wang, Chan, and Pauleen 2010).…”

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A platform for optimisation in distributed manufacturing enterprises based on cloud manufacturing paradigm

Valilai

Houshmand

2014

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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The synergy of fundamental factors like changes in governmental policies, global expansions of the manufacturing industries and improvements in technology related to reliability of manufacturing information flow have created the global manufacturing revolution in the first years of the twenty-first century. Although the concept of global manufacturing enterprise has created benefits and opportunities for today's manufacturing enterprises, it has enforced enterprises to endure costs to adopt the global manufacturing solutions. Besides, considering the researches aimed to enable the global manufacturing paradigm, there is still a need for efficient solutions to fulfil the global product development requirements. In this paper, the essential aspects and requirements of a global manufacturing approach are studied. Considering the essential requirements such as integration of manufacturing operations over the globe, maintaining manufacturing networks in distributed manufacturing enterprises, collaboration of global manufacturing agents within the networks and enabling the optimal solution systems in global manufacturing enterprises, the paper reviews the dominant researches for the global manufacturing solutions. Considering the new paradigm for global manufacturing called cloud manufacturing discussed in the latest works of the authors, the paper proposes a new manufacturing platform called STRATUS Cloud for today's global manufacturing. The architecture of STRATUS Cloud is discussed based on the cloud manufacturing paradigm to fulfil the requirements of global manufacturing platform especially in enabling the global manufacturing for adoption of optimal solution systems. The STRATUS Cloud inherits capabilities from the recent authors' researches such as collaboration support of distributed manufacturing agents over the globe and the integration of the manufacturing operation based on the STEP standard while extending its application and fulfilling STEP's limitations. The STRATUS Cloud proposes a contribution for enabling the adoption of the optimal solutions through manufacturing processes. This contribution is achieved via a manufacturing cloud reconciled with the proposed platform structure. The capabilities of the STRATUS Cloud to enable optimisation systems are discussed in different case study scenarios.

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Control of Reconfigurable Machine Tools

Cited by 10 publications

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

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

Development of a software application for machine tool reconfiguration using a knowledge-based engineering system approach

A platform for optimisation in distributed manufacturing enterprises based on cloud manufacturing paradigm

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