Manufacturing process reengineering for mass customization by using flexibility analysis

Author

Wu, NaiQi ; Qian, Yanming ; Yu, Zhaoqin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechatronics Eng., Guangdong Univ. of Technol., China

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

5062

Abstract

It is a trend to implement mass customization to meet customer demands and win the global competition. To implement mass customization, today´s manufacturing process should be reengineered. It is believed that manufacturing process reengineering is a highly risk job. Flexibility in manufacturing systems has been recognized as one of the vital competitive priorities in manufacturing strategy, and should be taken into consideration in manufacturing process reengineering to reduce the risk. Thus, flexibility analysis can be used as a tool in the manufacturing process reengineering. In this paper we develop a measurement of flexibility in manufacturing systems for customization. This measurement measures not only the impact of manufacturing technology hardware but also the impact of the product design and process design, so it can be used as guide in manufacturing reengineering for mass customization. A case study is presented to show the use of the proposed approach.

Keywords

manufacturing processes; manufacturing systems; process design; product design; customer demands; flexibility analysis; flexible manufacturing system; global competition; manufacturing process reengineering; mass customization; process design; product design; Business process re-engineering; Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing systems; Mass customization; Mass production; Mechatronics; Process design; Product design; Production systems; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8566-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400996

Filename

1400996