Variant-oriented Assembly Planning

Cooperation of human and machines in assembly lines

“…But this area needs much higher attention if the performance of automatic assembly shall be brought to the same high level as that found in parts manufacturing. Some interesting papers by Bley, Denkena, Jovane et al has pointed out the challenges and opportunities for greater effectiveness and flexibility in automatic assembly [55][56][57][58][59][60].…”

Mastering demand and supply uncertainty with combined product and process configuration

“…De Lit et al (2003) introduced an integrated approach for product family and assembly system design. Bley and Zenner (2006) developed an approach to integrate product design and assembly planning.…”

“…A literature review, which is presented hereafter, shows that available literature on this subject focuses on the definition domain, i.e. translation of customer requirements to an integrated design of products and manufacturing processes (Jiao et al, 2000, De Lit et al, 2003, Jiao et al, 2005, Bley and Zenner, 2006. However, the presence of supply uncertainty results in a high mutual dependence also after the definition phase.…”

Data Mining-supported Generation of Assembly Process Plans

“…Especially in assembly planning the resulting process complexity becomes apparent [1] and is difficult to keep under control, as all product and process variants have to be kept at the same time. Manufacturing industry and the automotive industry as a pioneer, has consequently been concentrating on the application of digital manufacturing systems in order to counteract these challenges as they allow to support simultaneous engineering processes and to cope with the multitude of product variants.…”