DocumentCode
2751813
Title
Guidelines for evaluating the ease of reconfiguration of manufacturing systems
Author
Covanich, Wutthiphat ; McFarlane, Duncan ; Farid, Amro M.
Author_Institution
Inst. for Manuf., Cambridge Univ., Cambridge
fYear
2008
fDate
13-16 July 2008
Firstpage
1214
Lastpage
1219
Abstract
This paper presents guidelines for evaluating the ease of reconfiguration of manufacturing systems. Based reconfigurability measurement tools proposed in the past and a reconfiguration process model, the paper proposes a method that can be used to assess different system characteristics. After the guideline is presented, an example of how the method can be applied to a batch processing system is given. It is found that the proposed method can be applied to batch processing systems based on ISA S88 batch server commercial software.
Keywords
batch processing (industrial); manufacturing systems; batch processing systems; batch server commercial software; manufacturing systems; reconfigurability measurement tools; reconfiguration process; Cost function; Guidelines; Instruction sets; Manufacturing systems; Product design; Production planning; Pulp manufacturing; Scheduling; Software engineering; Software measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industrial Informatics, 2008. INDIN 2008. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Daejeon
ISSN
1935-4576
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2170-1
Electronic_ISBN
1935-4576
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/INDIN.2008.4618287
Filename
4618287
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