Reconfigurable manufacturing systems and environment consciousness

Author

Brehmer, Nick ; Wang, Chengen

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Factory Oper. & Autom., Magdeburg, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1-3 Feb 1999

Firstpage

463

Lastpage

468

Abstract

In the past, manufacturing systems were configured once for a stable environment. But today, enterprises face a turbulent environment. Enterprises therefore have to be adaptable to a permanently changing environment. This means, enterprises have to overcome the old procedures and have to be able to configure their organizations continuously-we call it configurability. Our work deals with the reconfigurability of future manufacturing systems. Looking on those systems we have to consider several dimensions. In this paper we limit ourselves to the dimension organization, product, and information systems

Keywords

information systems; management; manufacturing industries; dimension organization; dynamic behaviour; environment consciousness; information systems reconfigurability; permanently changing environment; product reconfigurability; product systems; reconfigurable manufacturing systems; self-evolution; self-organisation; turbulent environment; Agile manufacturing; Evolution (biology); Fractals; Information technology; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing systems; Product development; Production facilities; Shape; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 1999. Proceedings. EcoDesign '99: First International Symposium On

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0007-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.1999.747657

Filename

747657