The optimization of existing manufacturing systems is a challenging and highly complex task, requiring highquality information about the current system. Currently, acquiring such information involves tedious and to a large extend manual work. In this paper we present an ongoing joint project effort bringing together cognitive robotics and planning and control of manufacturing systems to create ...

Manufacturing industries are moving from mass production towards customized production, aiming for high-quality products with innovative technologies, low prices, and high reliability. A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is an attractive approach to facilitate the movement toward such flexible systems. However, reconfiguration programming of RMS time-consuming labor-intensive. Industry ...

1 Shimon K. Modi, Purdue University, Industrial Technology, 401 N Grant St, W Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA, [email protected] 2 Stephen J. Elliott, Ph.D., Purdue University, Industrial Technology, 401 N Grant St, W Lafayette, IN, 47906, USA, [email protected] Abstract  In the past decade, global business has experienced substantial growth; the manufacturing industry has played a large role in th...

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...

The development of flexible and reliable manufacturing systems would be greatly simplified if the control algorithms could be automatically synthesized. This paper describes a real life manufacturing system with dynamic products that actively route themselves through the system. Using reusable software modules as models of the physical resources, and part-routing as specifications on the system...

During the analysis and design of manufacturing systems, enterprises are challenged by existing restrictions and the running production. To handle these key issues, different digital tools and approaches have widely been implemented in recent years. By mean of such tools and approaches, a manufacturing system is able to be adapted whenever changes occur. As one of the most important approaches,...

A forward and automatic method for in-process model generation is proposed and integrated with three-dimensional computer aided process planning (CAPP) system. The method based on feature cutter volume of manufacturing drives the in-process model to evolve from blank to part, which is coincident with the manufacturing process and ideology of process design. At the same time, technology of What-...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is an established technique to model, analyze and optimize material and information flows in a manufacturing company. VSM does supply a graphical notation, however, it does not provide an automatic execution model. As a result, the flows modeled in VSM need to be mapped to executable ITSystems manually. This paper proposes an approach to enable automatic execution of ...

Using product line automatic production procedure and the management system of modern manufacturing industry for reference, a new model of integrated software engineering environment based on product line is put forward, and framework and realizing mechanism of the new model is mainly analyzed in this paper. The new model takes product line core asset (resource) components as the agent bus. The...