Modelling to Reduce the Configuration Phase Time of Machine Design

Matthews, Jason; Ding, Lu; Singh, Baljinder; Mullineux, Glen; Medland, Tony

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“…(6) Equipment redesign, modification and replacement. The rules also provide a series of objective measures for the evaluation and assessment of new equipment (Matthews et al 2008). In cases where the process and the design principles which underlie the equipment are identified to be close to their limits then a process and equipment redesign may be necessary (Hicks et al 2002).…”

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The barriers to realising sustainable process improvement: A root cause analysis of paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement

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Matthews

2010

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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To become world-class, manufacturing organisations employ an array of tools and methods to realise process improvement. However, many of these fail to meet expectations and/or bring about new less well understood problems. Hence, prior to developing further tools and methods it is first necessary to understand the reasons why such initiatives fail. This paper seeks to elicit the root causes of failed implementations and consider how these may be overcome. The paper begins by reviewing various paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement including design/redesign-, maintenance-, operator-, process-, product-and quality-led initiatives. In addition to examining the knowledge requirements of these approaches, the barriers to realising improvement are examined through consideration and review of literature from the fields of manufacturing, management and information systems. These fields are selected because of the considerable work that deals with process improvement, change management, information systems implementation and production systems. The review reveals the importance of fundamental understanding and highlights the lack of current methods for generating such understanding. To address this issue, the concept of machine-material interaction is introduced and a set of requirements for a supportive methodology to generate the fundamental understanding necessary to realise sustainable process improvement is developed.

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The barriers to realising sustainable process improvement: A root cause analysis of paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement

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2010

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“…The body of research is concentrating on two important areas of the manufacturing process of products. Firstly, the conversion from raw materials into product, in the case reported in this paper, subtractive machining for die manufacture [2] and secondly into the primary and secondary packaging stages of the product [3]. These stages have been selected from the product lifecycle because of the authors' previous knowledge, access to collaborating companies and case studies and the respective stages perceived environmental impact.…”

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The Development of the Sustainable Manufacturing Processes

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Sustainable manufacturing will be the dominate factor in the design of the future factory. Any manufacturing operation within these factories will affect the environment, be it through the waste it creates, the resources it uses, or the energy it consumes. All can be significant, but not all have been properly examined or documented. This paper presents an initial investigation into these issues related to subtractive machining and evaluates research finding against the waste hierarchy. The paper concludes by discussing the findings and presents some requirements and suggestions for the factory of the future.

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“…In this manner components could be sought that fitted to others or the spaces manipulated to form simple assemblies [11]. An increase in complexity was provided to allow the individual rules of a problem to be clustered within a single function in order to provide solutions to complex assemblies and the operation of complete mechanism chains [12]. This technique is illustrated in Figure 1a where a film grip mechanism, employed in a toffee-wrapping machine, has been resolved by this approach.…”

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“…The resolution variables are declared as the necessary rotations and translations of the component spaces in order to complete a correct (true) assembly of the complete system, in a chosen orientation of the driving cams [11]. By rotating the cams to a new position and resolving again the mechanism can be investigated throughout its operating cycle [12].…”

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The implementation of a direct search approach for the resolution of complex and changing rule-based problems

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Matthews

2009

Engineering with Computers

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During the evolution of constraint modelling approaches, they have increased in their ability to resolve more and more complex problems. They all rely upon their ability to define the design problem by a set of constraint rules, which are true when the problem is solved, by the manipulation of selected free variables. However as they have advanced differing techniques have been applied to address problems of increasing complexity. This study has been directed towards addressing those that are not only complex but also ill structured and evolving. In order to address such problems an approach has been developed that employs sensitivity analysis and problem strategies to form an evolving direct search technique. Whilst this is generic approach that has been applied to a range of engineering problems it is illustrated here through its use in a study into the posture modelling of humans. In this it was recognized that such a new approach was required due to the complex description, limits and postures possible in the human body.

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Modelling to Reduce the Configuration Phase Time of Machine Design

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The barriers to realising sustainable process improvement: A root cause analysis of paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement

The barriers to realising sustainable process improvement: A root cause analysis of paradigms for manufacturing systems improvement

The Development of the Sustainable Manufacturing Processes

The implementation of a direct search approach for the resolution of complex and changing rule-based problems

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