Towards Sequence Planning Based on Configurable Product and Manufacturing System Platforms
Paper in proceeding, 2010

Operation sequences are central in the interaction between product and manufacturing development. This is because the sequences create an understanding of how a product is manufactured. The high degree of complexity in managing and planning manufacturing operations during the development of a configurable product and manufacturing platform requires a new and more flexible sequence planning approach. By integrating configurable product and manufacturing system platform descriptions, product variance, manufacturing system flexibility, and product and manufacturing system complexity can all be efficiently adapted to each other by considering interrelated constraints. Such an integrated platform system also provides the information required to describe the operations needed to manufacture an instantiated product variant. This paper proposes an approach in which sequences are viewed based on the relations among self-contained operations, thus saving engineers from manually constructing sequences for each product variant. The sequences of operations related to, for example, the part flow for a specific platform configuration, robot operations or operator tasks can be automatically visualized through the use of different perspectives.

Author

Kristofer Bengtsson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Systems and control

Marcel Michaelis

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Christoffer E Levandowski

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Bengt Lennartson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Systems and control

Hans L Johannesson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference NordDesign 2010

Vol. Vol. 2 467-476
978-91-633-7064-9 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Production

Subject Categories

Information Science

ISBN

978-91-633-7064-9

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10/7/2017