Flexibility and manufacturing system design: An experimental investigation
| Autor: | John P. Shewchuk, Colin L. Moodie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
business.industry Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Manufacturing systems Industrial engineering Product engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Manufacturing engineering Profit (economics) Computer-integrated manufacturing Manufacturing Process development execution system Advanced manufacturing business Manufacturing system design |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Production Research. 38:1801-1822 |
| ISSN: | 1366-588X 0020-7543 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/002075400188609 |
| Popis: | Manufacturing industries today are faced with steady and unrelenting changes to the environment in which they operate. In order to survive and profit, manufacturing facilities must be designed such that they exhibit desirable system-level flexibility characteristics. The relationships between flexibility and manufacturing system design, however, remain largely unexplored. This paper investigates the effects of manufacturing system design on product, mix, production, and volume flexibilities, and on trade-offs between these flexibility types, for different product environments. Of particular concern is the determination of whether or not flexibility trade-offs can be avoided, and if so, how. Simulation experiments are performed to determine flexibility values for 16 different manufacturing system design 'approaches' and two levels of part processing flexibility. A total of 800 different manufacturing system/product set combinations are investigated. The results indicate that the effects of manufacturing sy... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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