Title :
Design lessons for building agile manufacturing systems
Author :
Newman, Wyatt S. ; Podgurski, Andy ; Quinn, Roger D. ; Merat, Frank L. ; Branicky, Michael S. ; Barendt, Nick A. ; Causey, Greg C. ; Haaser, Erin L. ; Kim, Yoohwan ; Swaminathan, Jayendran ; Velasco, Virgilio B., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, USA
fDate :
6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Summarizes results of a five-year, multi-disciplinary, university-industry collaborative effort investigating design issues in agile manufacturing. The focus of the project is specifically on light mechanical assembly, with the demand that new assembly tasks be implementable quickly, economically, and effectively. Key to achieving these goals is the ease of equipment and software reuse. Design choices for both hardware and software must strike a balance between the inflexibility of special-purpose designs and the impracticality of overly general designs. We review both our physical and software design choices and make recommendations for the design of agile manufacturing systems
Keywords :
assembling; computer integrated manufacturing; flexible manufacturing systems; software reusability; agile manufacturing systems; design issues; design lessons; equipment reuse; light mechanical assembly; software reuse; special-purpose designs; Agile manufacturing; Application software; Buildings; Flexible manufacturing systems; Hardware; Intelligent systems; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; Production; Robotic assembly;
Journal_Title :
Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on
