Towards Developing Sustainable Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Manufacturing companies in the 21st Century will face unpredictable, high-frequency market changes driven by global competition. To stay competitive, these companies must possess new types of manufacturing systems that are cost-effective and very responsive to all these market changes. Reconfigurability, an engineering technology that deals with cost-effective, quick reaction to market changes,...

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Key to future manufacturing

Design of reconfigurable manufacturing systems

This paper explains the rationale for the development of reconfigurable manufacturing systems, which possess the advantages both of dedicated lines and of flexible systems. The paper defines the core characteristics and design principles of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) and describes the structure recommended for practical RMS with RMS core characteristics. After that, a rigorous m...

Are Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Sustainable?

This paper introduces and opens the debate on the place of “productdriven control” and, on a broader level, Intelligent Manufacturing and Services Systems in sustainable development and circular economy. First, IMS concept and perspectives on future industrial and economic systems, as well as their expected advantages and the challenges to be addressed are introduced. Different sustainability i...

Model-based Control for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Abstract: The manufacturing industry cannot stay competitive and survive in today’s market without agile adaptation to rapidly changing customers’ demands. This in turn requires manufacturing systems to be reconfigurable for timely introduction of new products in the market. Unfortunately, at present, the system designers cannot systematically and completely manage their design data, because th...