Product platforms design, selection and customisation in high-variety manufacturing

Galizia, Francesco Gabriele; ElMaraghy, Hoda A.; Bortolini, Marco; Mora, Cristina

doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1602745

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“…Modern trends such as mass customization, higher product variability, reduced product life cycles and variable production batches require production systems to be designed for rapid reconfiguration and self-adaptation in response to disruptions, in terms of either product changes or changes in other operational parameters [24][25][26][27][28]. Research in the area proposes, among others, reconfigurable manufacturing and assembly systems with 'plug and produce' technologies [29], holonic manufacturing and evolvable collaborative manufacturing and assembly systems [23,[29][30][31].…”

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Adaptive Automation Assembly Systems in the Industry 4.0 Era: A Reference Framework and Full–Scale Prototype

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Industry 4.0 emerged in the last decade as the fourth industrial revolution aiming at reaching greater productivity, digitalization and operational efficiency standard. In this new era, if compared to automated assembly systems, manual assembly systems (MASs) are still characterized by wide flexibility but poor productivity levels. To reach acceptable performances in terms of both productivity and flexibility, higher automation levels are required to increase the skills and capabilities of the human operators with the aim to design next-generation assembly systems having higher levels of adaptivity and collaboration between people and automation/information technology. In the current literature, such systems are called adaptive automation assembly systems (A3Ss). For A3Ss, few design approaches and industrial prototypes are available. This paper, extending a previous contribution by the Authors, expands the lacking research in the field and proposes a general framework guiding toward A3S effective design and validation. The framework is applied to a full-scale prototype, highlighting its features together with the technical- and human-oriented improvements arising from its adoption. Specifically, evidence from this study show a set of benefits from adopting innovative A3Ss in terms of reduction of the assembly cycle time (about 30%) with a consequent increase of the system productivity (about 45%) as well as relevant improvements of ergonomic posture indicators (about 15%). The definition of a general framework for A3S design and validation and the integration of the productivity and ergonomic analysis of such systems are missing in the current literature, representing an element of innovation. Globally, this research paper provides advanced knowledge to guide research, industrial companies and practitioners in switching from traditional to advanced assembly systems in the emerging Industry 4.0 era matching current industrial and market features.

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“…SolidWorks has an open interface, and provides convenient user-development tools and rich data-exchange methods [8]. The secondary development of SolidWorks is mainly to use its embedded Application Programming Interface (API) objects.…”

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The art design of industrialised manufacturing furniture products based on the simulation of mathematical curves

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Suresh

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Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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After a lot of literature reading and practical research, the paper uses the parametric modelling method of curve simulation characteristic line to establish the mathematical model of the furniture product leg shape. This article first uses the surface construction method to analyse the composition of the leg size of the industrialised production and manufacture of furniture products, and makes the solid modelling according to the construction method of non-uniform rational spline mathematical curve and surface simulation. At the same time, the parameter function of furniture leg type is set on SolidWorks, and the research results obtained in the paper are found by simulation, which opens up a new research path for the application of mathematical curve model in furniture design.

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“…Another important approach enabling changeability is platform design (Fricke and Schulz 2005). A product platform is defined as a set of constant parameters, features and components, from which a stream of derivative product variants can be efficiently produced and developed (Galizia et al 2020;Simpson, Maier, and Mistree 2001). Platform is engineered or produced to stock, and differentiated features and parts are added when the order is known (Galizia et al 2020), which reduces the number of ECs initiated by customers.…”

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Status of engineering change management in the engineer-to-order production environment: insights from a multiple case study

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Romsdal

Alfnes

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International Journal of Production Research

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Engineering Changes (ECs) are a fact of life for companies in the Engineer-To-Order (ETO) production environment. Various Engineering Change Management (ECM) strategies, practices and tools exist, but no explicit distinction has been made regarding ECM in different production environments. Using a multiple case study method, this article investigates how ETO companies manage ECs and how ETO characteristics influence ECM. A generic ECM framework was developed and used to map ECM in the cases. The study showed that ETO companies use similar practices for handling ECs, while ECM tools are either not used by the companies or used to a very limited extent. It was found that the use of some ECM practices and tools is complicated by specific ETO company characteristics. However, no reasons were found for the lack of computerbased tools, change propagation and impact assessment tools, change reduction and front-loading tools, and design tools. This suggests, firstly, that there is vast room for improvement in ETO companies when it comes to ECM; and secondly, that the applicability of such tools should be further tested in the ETO environment. Based on the findings, some suggestions as to how ECM can be improved in ETO companies are given to practitioners.

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Product platforms design, selection and customisation in high-variety manufacturing

Cited by 53 publications

References 39 publications

Adaptive Automation Assembly Systems in the Industry 4.0 Era: A Reference Framework and Full–Scale Prototype

Adaptive Automation Assembly Systems in the Industry 4.0 Era: A Reference Framework and Full–Scale Prototype

The art design of industrialised manufacturing furniture products based on the simulation of mathematical curves

Status of engineering change management in the engineer-to-order production environment: insights from a multiple case study

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