A Computer Aided Design System for Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems Reconfiguration
The authors are members of a team involved in the study of Design and Operation of Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems (POMS) at the Production Systems Engineering Centre (CESP) of the University of Minho, in Portugal.
POMS are systems designed for variable product demand markets, and dynamically reconfigured for the manufacture of a single type of product or a family of similar products at a time. POMS systems can take several forms and result from exploring the use of flexible resources,a variety of new design philosophies, technologies and approaches to manufacture, including Cellular, Lean, Agile, Quick Response and Fit Manufacturing. In this paper a computer aided design system for the design and reconfiguration of POMS is addressed. A characterization and description of the structure and components of the design system, including a database, a user interface and a knowledge base and the description of some important data sets, are presented.
Have you used this framework to generate product? Could you give an example please?
Have you applied this in a real life problem and see if the frame work holds?
We do have made an application of the framework to a real life case, presented at the Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing, World Symposium 2003. However, in this case, due to limited complexity, not all steps of the methodology were necessary to apply.
A paper about this is published in the proceedings of the Symposium: Silva, S. C. e Alves, A. C. (2003) “An Industrial application study of the GCD design methodology for Product Oriented Manufacturing”, Proceedings of the Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing, World Symposium 2003, Columbus, Ohio, USA, July 28-30, 2003, pp. 65-70
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We do have made an application of the framework to a real life case, presented to the Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing, World Symposium 2003. In this case we generated a Product, i.e. a Sewing System composed of four autonomous-independent cells to meet product market demand for a six month period.
A paper about this is published in the proceedings of the Symposium: Silva, S. C. e Alves, A. C. (2003) “An Industrial application study of the GCD design methodology for Product Oriented Manufacturing”, Proceedings of the Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing, World Symposium 2003, Columbus, Ohio, USA, July 28-30, 2003, pp. 65-70
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Checking it works