This keynote paper focuses on the process plans and planning functions as the important link between the features of generations of products/product families and the features, capabilities and configurations of manufacturing systems and components throughout their respective life cycles. The challenges presented by the paradigm shift in manufacturing systems and their increased flexibility and ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.11.039 ⇑ Tel.: +82 41 550 5376; fax: +82 41 550 5185. E-mail address: [email protected] Most manufacturing companies cooperate with manufacturing partners in order to have flexible usable capacities to meet variable customer demand. In this environment, evaluations of manufacturing partners and integrated production-planni...

The paper describes objectives and results of a research project conducted by Daimler–Benz AG. Intention of this project is decision support for a logistics division. In particular, the production flow control (PFC) in a factory has to be optimized by a decision support system. PFC is a sophisticated process influenced by complex factory structures and high dynamism of manufacturing processes. ...

Real-life problems typically include both planning and scheduling components. In some areas, like manufacturing, the planning task is not very complicated but what makes the problem hard is integration with scheduling. Traditional schedulers cannot handle such problems because of the planning component and traditional planners are not interested because planning is easy there. The paper describ...

This paper concentrates on the planning requirements for the adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) in order to safeguard their successful implementation. Using the Cypriot manufacturing industry as a case study information is extracted regarding the implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies. The research results are analyzed and are used in the development of a plann...

A manufacturing feature can be defined simply as a geometric shape and its manufacturing information to create the shape. In a feature-based process planning system, feature library plays an important role in the extraction of manufacturing features with their proper manufacturing information. However, to manage the manufacturing information flexibly, it is important to build a feature library ...

Today, within the global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) approach, success of design, industrialization and production activities depends on the ability to coordinate and improve the interaction among information systems that handle such activities. Enterprises deploy mainly the PLM system, the Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in order to...