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

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

238

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1042-296X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/70.850641

Filename

850641