RELATIONS BETWEEN PARAMETERS/PERFORMERS AND LEVELS OF AUTOMATION
Paper in proceedings, 2007
Abstract: Manufacturing companies struggles with the fact that costumers are becoming
more and more aggressive in demanding new products and services within a short period
of time. A result of this is that companies have to find the most effective manufacturing
for their products. This means finding new tactics to decrease the time- and costparameters
in a system i.e. cycle-time, ramp-up time, investments etc. It is a challenge to
find the best solution for this when it comes to flexibility, robustness and efficiency. This
paper presents some of the parameters that exist in a manufacturing system and the
relationship between them. This is done to be able to identify the parameters that is the
most important when it comes to simulate and visualise different Levels of Automation
(LoA).
Parameters
assembly systems
flexibility
Levels of Automation