Computer-guided system for design of factories

Autor: Ca Van Luttervelt, Fw Wedman, J Tong, H Bikker
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 16:571-585
ISSN: 1362-3052
0951-192X
Popis: To stay competitive at the start of the 21st century, manufacturing companies are in great need of support for designing/redesigning their production systems in accordance with the drastically, rapidly and frequently changing environment. Our aim is to develop a computer-guided system for the design of factories in the manufacturing industry. As a first step, a hybrid reference model for factory design is presented in this paper to describe the necessary design actions carried out during the process of factory design. According to the reference model, the general design actions together with their corresponding techniques are categorized. Different participants are working on these design activities, each representing the opinion from disciplines inside or outside the company in a distributed cooperative way with equal authorities but heterogeneous knowledge. To control effectively the interactions among the cooperating designers from different departments, a computer guidance method of the process of des...
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