Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: A key objective in modern and future manufacturing is increasing efficiency and eliminating downtime, even in the face of rapidly changing markets. To achieve this, various concepts and technologies are currently being researched in the context of manufacturing. One of the main topics of research is expanding the flexibility of resources, processes, products and their combination. This would enable and optimize concepts such as cloud manufacturing or equipment-as-a-service. However, in the literature, many authors focus on researching and experimenting with concepts or algorithms without defining flexibility. While the benefits of flexibility are intuitively understandable, often no quantifiable metric or qualitative analysis is proposed. This leads to ambiguities and a lack of comparability between approaches. In this paper, relevant literature and their implicitly covered flexibility dimensions are categorized explicitly along the Product-Process-Resource model. Based on this, an exemplary temporal resource flexibility model and its benefits are discussed. This numerical modeling method can be applied to further define flexibility for simulations or optimization algorithms.
Authors: Robin Huwa, Marcus Albrecht, Andreas Leinenbach, Johannes Schilp
Institution: University of Augsburg
Language: English
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4405709766