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Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Part of the Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing Book Series

Editors: ElMaraghy, Hoda A.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-067-8

ISBN: 978-1-84882-066-1

Publisher: Springer London - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2009

1 - 10 of 22 Chapters

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Changeability – An Introduction

ElMaraghy, Hoda A.; Wiendahl, H.-P.

Pages: 3 –24

[Manufacturing has been experiencing dynamically changing environment that presents industrialists and academics with formidable challenges to adapt to these changes effectively and economically while maintaining a high level of responsiveness, agility and competitiveness. Advances in...
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Changing and Evolving Products and Systems – Models and Enablers

ElMaraghy, Hoda A.

Pages: 25 –45

[Many manufacturing challenges emerged due to the proliferation of products variety caused by products evolution and customization. They require responsiveness in all manufacturing support functions to act as effective enablers of change. This Chapter summarizes some recent findings by the author...
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Focused Flexibility in Production Systems

Terkaj, W.; Tolio, T.; Valente, A.

Pages: 47 –66

[Manufacturing flexibility is seen as the main mechanism for surviving in the present market environment. Companies acquire systems with a high degree of flexibility to cope with frequent production volume changes and evolutions of the technological requirements of products. However, literature...
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Control of Reconfigurable Machine Tools

Pritschow, G.; Wurst, K-H.; Kircher, C.; Seyfarth, M.

Pages: 71 –100

[Changes in manufacturing requirements and market demands call for increased flexibility, adaptability and sometimes reconfiguration. This is true for manufacturing systems and their components such as machines and robots. This chapter discusses both the physical hardware reconfiguration of these...
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Reconfigurable Machine Tools for a Flexible Manufacturing System

Mori, M.; Fujishima, M.

Pages: 101 –109

[A flexible manufacturing system with CNC machining centers is becoming decidedly appealing to automotive industry. Such production systems are required to have minimal cycle times and exhibit high flexibility. Consequently, the development and supply of machine tool systems that can fulfill the...
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Reconfigurable Machine Tools and Equipment

Abele, E.; Wörn, A.

Pages: 111 –125

[Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) are characterized by their quick adaptation to un-scheduled and un-predictable changes in production requirements. Trends, like the reduction of product life cycles, high products diversity at small lot sizes, as well as the fast development and...
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Changeable and Reconfigurable Assembly Systems

Lotter, B.; Wiendahl, H.-P.

Pages: 127 –142

[Industrial assembly is subject to quick product changes, increasing numbers of variants and short planning spans of the customer. Because of the relatively high percentage of manual work the cost pressures from low wage countries is especially high. These challenges can be effectivelymet,...
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Unified Dynamic and Control Models for Reconfigurable Robots

Djuric, A. M.; ElMaraghy, W. H.

Pages: 147 –161

[A highly reconfigurable control system that intelligently unifies reconfiguration and manages the interaction of individual robotic control systems within a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS), is presented. A Reconfigurable Plant Model (RPM) representing different robotic systems was...
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Reconfigurable Control of Constrained Flexible Joint Robots Interacting with Dynamic and Changeable Environment

Cao, Y.; ElMaraghy, W. H.; ElMaraghy, Hoda A.

Pages: 163 –176

[This chapter deals with the effect of changes at the machine/robot physical level and new reconfigurable control strategies to enable such change. Joint flexibility constitutes the major source of compliance in most industrial robots. It is important to account for joint flexibility when dealing...
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Reconfiguring Process Plans: A New Approach to Minimize Change

Azab, A.; ElMaraghy, Hoda A.; Samy, S. N.

Pages: 179 –194

[In a customer driven market, the increasing number of product variants is a challenge most engineering companies face. Unpredictable changes in product design and associated engineering specifications trigger frequent changes in process plans, which often dictate costly and time consuming...

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