Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Literature review and research trend

Time-Based Estimator for Control Reconfiguration of Discrete Event Systems (DES)

“…The concept of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS), that was proposed by the University of Michigan in 1999, was the effective solution adopted by researchers to meet the market's requirements and to gain competitiveness. It is necessary to design easily reconfigurable MS in order to adapt them quickly to a changing request (fault detection, configurations changing, or specifications changing) [6], [7] [8], [9], [10]and [11]. This, therefore, requires having systems that are both reconfigurable at the hardware level but also at the control level as solutions to respond to these requirements.…”

Development of Final Projects in Engineering Degrees around an Industry 4.0-Oriented Flexible Manufacturing System: Preliminary Outcomes and Some Initial Considerations

“…Learning factory (LF) is also a related concept that in general comprises complex facilities that mimic real production processes and environments, and it is used to develop competencies for present and future personnel [32]. These facilities play a key role in linking academia to industry to spread the culture of innovation [19]. In the present case, the educational-oriented usage of an FMS is simpler, but aims to constitute an initial approximation to such an environment.…”

“…However, the physical availability of laboratory-scale real industrial FMS In scientific literature, FMSs are profusely used for R&D tasks, for instance in the context of production scheduling [20][21][22][23], for integration of the low-cost open source platform Arduino [24], or for applying an Industry 4.0-compliant architecture [25]. An extensive review about applications of FMS can be found in Reference [19].…”

“…Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is considered to be one of the enabling technologies of Industry 4.0 [19]. The 3D Cartesian robot that is under development will allow for introducing this technology in the FMS.…”

Production Planning and Control as Routing in Manufacturing Networks

“…The general network paradigm offers flexible reconfigurable systems that can handle unstable and changing customer demands. We see the move towards networks by the increased focus on collaboration within integrated manufacturing networks [3,4]. Such manufacturing systems allow rapid adjustments according to their production capacity and functionality needed especially by customer-centric manufacturers as engineer-to-order companies producing customer specific products [5,6].…”