TY - GEN
T1 - Reconfigurable Manufacturing
T2 - IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2019
AU - Napoleone, Alessia
AU - Andersen, Ann-Louise
AU - Pozzetti, Alessandro
AU - Macchi, Marco
PY - 2019/8/24
Y1 - 2019/8/24
N2 - Reconfigurable manufacturing, providing capacity and functionality on demand, is an ever more important factor of competitiveness in volatile, unpredictable, and rapidly changing markets. In this regard, scalability and convertibility are considered particularly relevant characteristics, as they directly reduce reconfiguration effort and enhance system responsiveness. However, in previous research, scalability and convertibility have predominately been addressed conceptually on a high level of abstraction with only limited consideration of how specific manufacturing elements can enhance and realize them. Therefore, the objective of this paper is first to identify and classify elements enabling scalability and convertibility in order to bring reconfigurability-related concepts closer to the world of practitioners. Moreover, as a result, the paper concretizes scalability and convertibility and provides a foundation for future empirical research on reconfigurability.
AB - Reconfigurable manufacturing, providing capacity and functionality on demand, is an ever more important factor of competitiveness in volatile, unpredictable, and rapidly changing markets. In this regard, scalability and convertibility are considered particularly relevant characteristics, as they directly reduce reconfiguration effort and enhance system responsiveness. However, in previous research, scalability and convertibility have predominately been addressed conceptually on a high level of abstraction with only limited consideration of how specific manufacturing elements can enhance and realize them. Therefore, the objective of this paper is first to identify and classify elements enabling scalability and convertibility in order to bring reconfigurability-related concepts closer to the world of practitioners. Moreover, as a result, the paper concretizes scalability and convertibility and provides a foundation for future empirical research on reconfigurability.
KW - Changeable manufacturing
KW - Convertibility
KW - Reconfigurability
KW - Reconfigurable manufacturing
KW - Scalability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072968423&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-30000-5_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-30000-5_44
M3 - Article in proceeding
SN - 978-3-030-29999-6
T3 - I F I P Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 349
EP - 356
BT - Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management for the Factory of the Future
A2 - Ameri, Farhad
A2 - Stecke, Kathryn E.
A2 - von Cieminski, Gregor
A2 - Kiritsis, Dimitris
PB - Springer
Y2 - 1 September 2019 through 5 September 2019
ER -