TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding Changeability Enablers and Their Impact on Performance in Manufacturing Companies
AU - Andersen, Ann-Louise
AU - Nielsen, Kjeld
AU - Brunoe, Thomas D.
AU - Larsen, Jesper K.
AU - Ketelsen, Christopher
PY - 2018/8/25
Y1 - 2018/8/25
N2 - Managing and capitalizing on product variety, customization, personalization, decreasing batch sizes, as well as rapid new product introductions are prevailing challenges facing today’s manufacturing companies. Changeable and reconfigurable manufacturing systems have been widely accepted as means to respond to these challenges, due to their ability to accommodate continuous and cost-efficient change in functionality and capacity. However, enablers of reconfigurability that should be selected during manufacturing system design are in current research rarely regarded in terms of their inherent relations and impact on manufacturing performance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore implementation relations between physical enablers of reconfigurability on system and equipment level and their effect on manufacturing performance. For this purpose, a quantitative questionnaire-based survey has been conducted in various Danish manufacturing companies. The findings suggest that most reconfigurability enablers correlate strongly in their implementation and their extent of implementation generally correlates with critical performance aspects such as profitability, ramp-up time, and life-time of production systems.
AB - Managing and capitalizing on product variety, customization, personalization, decreasing batch sizes, as well as rapid new product introductions are prevailing challenges facing today’s manufacturing companies. Changeable and reconfigurable manufacturing systems have been widely accepted as means to respond to these challenges, due to their ability to accommodate continuous and cost-efficient change in functionality and capacity. However, enablers of reconfigurability that should be selected during manufacturing system design are in current research rarely regarded in terms of their inherent relations and impact on manufacturing performance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore implementation relations between physical enablers of reconfigurability on system and equipment level and their effect on manufacturing performance. For this purpose, a quantitative questionnaire-based survey has been conducted in various Danish manufacturing companies. The findings suggest that most reconfigurability enablers correlate strongly in their implementation and their extent of implementation generally correlates with critical performance aspects such as profitability, ramp-up time, and life-time of production systems.
KW - Changeability
KW - Changeable manufacturing
KW - Reconfigurability
KW - Reconfigurable manufacturing
KW - Survey research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053231387&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-99704-9_36
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-99704-9_36
M3 - Article in proceeding
SN - 9783319997032
T3 - I F I P Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 297
EP - 304
BT - Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management for Data-Driven, Intelligent, Collaborative, and Sustainable Manufacturing - IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Moon, Ilkyeong
A2 - Park, Jinwoo
A2 - Lee, Gyu M.
A2 - Kiritsis, Dimitris
A2 - von Cieminski, Gregor
PB - Springer
T2 - IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems
Y2 - 26 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -