Understanding Changeability Enablers and Their Impact on Performance in Manufacturing Companies

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Production Management Systems. Production Management for Data-Driven, Intelligent, Collaborative, and Sustainable Manufacturing - IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2018, Proceedings : IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2018, Seoul, Korea, August 26-30, 2018, Proceedings, Part I
EditorsIlkyeong Moon, Jinwoo Park, Gyu M. Lee, Dimitris Kiritsis, Gregor von Cieminski
Number of pages8
PublisherSpringer
Publication date25 Aug 2018
Pages297-304
ISBN (Print)9783319997032
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-99707-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Aug 2018
EventIFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems: Production Management for Data-Driven, Intelligent, Collaborative, and Sustainable Manufacturing - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 26 Aug 201830 Aug 2018

Conference

ConferenceIFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period26/08/201830/08/2018
SeriesI F I P Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume535
ISSN1868-4238

Keywords

  • Changeability
  • Changeable manufacturing
  • Reconfigurability
  • Reconfigurable manufacturing
  • Survey research

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