Approach to the production environment design task within factory coordination

✍ Scribed by Richard Bowden; Jimmie Browne

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 864 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0951-5240
• DOI: 10.1016/0951-5240(91)90007-l

✦ Synopsis

In a discrete parts batch manufacturin# environment, there are different data flows eoncernin9 the design of products and manufaeturin 9 facilities, customer orders, purchase of materials, production control and delivery of orders. Traditionally, because of the functional allocation of tasks within an organization, there is little integration of information between the production control task and the design of manufacturin 9 facilities. One of the objectives of the design of manufacturin 9 facilities tasks is to efficiently organize a production environment to manufacture a range of products. With a 9reater relationship between these two tasks, we feel that the complexity of the production control task is reduced. This reduction in complexity arises from a reduction in the range of possible problems that can occur and an increase in the predictability of events throuoh more effective organization of a production environment. Factory coordination is part of an approach to shopfloor control which recoonizes this principle by establishin9 a relationship between the desi9 n of a production environment and the control of product flow throuohout a factory. This relationship is established through a modular architecture for factory coordination. The production environment design element of the architecture for factory coordination is concentrated on. Usin9 a methodology for describin9 systems, known as SADT, three main tasks associated with this approach are described; process planning, maintenance of a cellular layout, and manufacturino systems analysis.