Defining Flexibility of Assembly Workstations Through the Underlying Dimensions and Impacting Drivers
| Autor: | El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Arno Claeys, Steven Hoedt, Jan Goos, Johannes Cottyn, Karel Bauters, Alessandro Biondi, Matthias Schamp, Lauren Van De Ginste |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Flexibility (engineering)
Workstation design 0209 industrial biotechnology Technology and Engineering Workstation Computer science Process (engineering) Mass customization systematic literature review flexibility dimensions flexibility drivers 02 engineering and technology Construct (python library) assembly workstation flexibility Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Manufacturing engineering Variety (cybernetics) law.invention interpretive structural modelling 020303 mechanical engineering & transports 020901 industrial engineering & automation 0203 mechanical engineering Artificial Intelligence law Causal model |
| Zdroj: | 25th International Conference on Production Research Manufacturing Innovation : Cyber Physical Manufacturing (ICPR25), Proceedings |
| ISSN: | 2351-9789 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.promfg.2020.01.391 |
| Popis: | The concept of mass customization is becoming increasingly important for manufacturers of assembled products. As a result, manufacturers face a high variety of products, small batch sizes and frequent changeovers. To cope with these challenges, an appropriate level of flexibility of the assembly system is required. A methodology for quantifying the flexibility level of assembly workstations could help to evaluate (and improve) this flexibility level at all times. That flexibility model could even be integrated into the standard workstation design process. Despite the general consensus among researchers that manufacturing flexibility is a multi-dimensional concept, there is still no consensus on its different dimensions. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) shows that many similarities can be found in the multitude of flexibility dimensions. Through a series of interactive company workshops, we achieved to reduce them to a shortlist of 9 flexibility dimensions applicable to an assembly workstation. In addition, a first step was taken to construct a causal model of these flexibility dimensions and their determining factors, the so called drivers, through the Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) approach. In the next phase, a driver scoring mechanism will be initiated to achieve an overall assembly workstation flexibility assessment based on the scoring of drivers depending on the workstation design. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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