Digital Manufacturing and Flexible Assembly Technologies for Reconfigurable Aerospace Production Systems

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems and their enabling technologies

A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is designed for rapid adjustment of production capacity and functionality in response to new market conditions and new process technology. It has several distinct characteristics including modularity, integrability, customization, convertibility and diagnosability. There are a number of key interrelated technologies that should be developed and implem...

Trends and perspectives in flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems

To better understand future needs in manufacturing and their enabling technologies, a survey of experts in manufacturing has been conducted. The survey instrument (i.e., questionnaire) tries to assess the experience to date with the use of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and to examine the potential roles and enabling technologies for reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS). The results...

Approach for production planning in reconfigurable manufacturing systems

To stay competitive and to fulfill the changing market needs, manufacturing companies have to adapt their manufacturing systems in frequent and short intervals. Hence, changeable and reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are proposed and discussed in a multitude of research publications. While production planning becomes increasingly complex in this context, it has to be reliable and quick...

Reconfigurable Hardware-Based Simulation Modeling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Quantitative Anlysis of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

A flexible manufacturing system is a high automated GT machine cell, consisting of a group of processing workstations (usually CNC machine tools), interconnected by an automated material handling and storage system, and controlled by a distributed computer system. The reason the FMS is called flexible is that it is capable of processing a variety of diffrent part styles simultaneously at the va...