Dependability Characteristics - Indicators for Maintenance Performance Measurement of Manufacturing Technology

Multidimensional of Manufacturing Technology, Organizational Characteristics, and Performance

The Use of Qualitative Indicators for Performance Measurement in Manufacturing Control Systems

New manufacturing control paradigms are being developed to improve the ability of enterprises to respond to change more effectively. However, there are no agreed definitions and methodologies for the evaluation and comparison of achievements of different manufacturing control systems approaches, making also difficult the communication and cooperation between manufacturing control systems develo...

Composite performance-dependability analysis of cellular manufacturing systems

This paper deals with the transient analysis of manufacturing systems in the presence of failures and repairs. The exact model is decomposed into 1) a structure state process, modeling the failure and repair events which occur at a slower time scale, and 2) a performance model, modeling the part processing and material movement events occurring at a faster time scale. The solutions of these two...

Performance and Dependability Evaluation of Manufacturing Systems Using Petri Nets

The importance of modeling and performance evaluation for the design of manufacturing systems is obvious. A new modeling method based on Colored Petri Nets is introduced in this paper, which is especially tailored to manufacturing systems. We propose the separate modeling of the manufacturing system's structure and the production routes with dedicated colored Petri nets. After an automatic comp...

Modeling manufacturing dependability

In this paper, an analytical approach for the availability evaluation of cellular manufacturing systems is presented, where a manufacturing system is considered operational as long as its production capacity requirements are satisfied. The advantage of the approach is that constructing a system level Markov chain (a complex task) is not required. A manufacturing system is decomposed into two su...