Integrated Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Smart Value Chain

✍ Scribed by M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book develops manufacturing concepts and applications beyond physical production and towards a wider manufacturing value chain incorporating external stakeholders that include suppliers of raw materials and parts, customers, collaborating manufacturing companies, manufacturing service providers, and environmental organisations. The focal point of the value chain remains as a manufacturing system and its operations whiles flows of parts/materials and information and services across the supply/value chain tiers are taken into account.

The book emphasises on the two innovative paradigms of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) and the 4th industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) along with their incorporated development. RMS, as a relatively new paradigm, has been introduced to meet the requirements of ‘the factories of the future’, which is aimed by Industry 4.0, though introducing greater responsiveness and customised flexibility into production systems, in which changes in product volumes and types occur regularly. Manufacturing responsiveness can be achieved by RMS through reconfiguring the production facilities according to changing demands of products and new market conditions.

The book addresses challenges of mass-customisation and dynamic changes in the supply-chain environment by focusing on developing new techniques related to integrability, scalability and re-configurability at a system level and manufacturing readiness in terms of financial and technical feasibility of RMS. It demonstrate the expected impacts of an RMS design on operational performance and its supply/value chain in the current/future manufacturing environment facing dynamic changes in the internal/external circumstances. In order to establish a circular economy through the RMS value chain, an integrated data-based reconfiguration link is introduced to incorporate information sharing amongst the value chain stakeholders and facilitate grouping products into families with allocation of the product families to the corresponding system configurations with optimal product-process allocation.

Decision support systems such as multi criteria decision making tools are developed and applied for the selection of product families and optimising product-process configuration. The proposed models are illustrated through real case studies in applicable manufacturing firms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii
Introduction to the Book (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 1-13
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Evolution of MS Paradigms Through Industrial Revolutions (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 17-42
RMS Value Chain Architecture (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 43-58
Front Matter ....Pages 59-59
RMS Distinguished Characteristics Through a Design Strategy (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 61-95
Product Grouping for RMS Tactical Design (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 97-124
Product Family Formation and Selection for Reconfigurability Using ANP (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 125-142
Front Matter ....Pages 143-143
Feasibility of an RMS Design (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 145-165
Evaluation of Reconfigurable Machines Using FAHP (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 167-196
RMS Performance Evaluation Using ANP and Holonic Structure (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 197-217
RMS Capacity Utilisation Through Product Life Cycles (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 219-252
Front Matter ....Pages 253-253
Risks in Manufacturing Supply Chain Incorporating RMS (M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf W. Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza Abdi)....Pages 255-279
Back Matter ....Pages 281-289

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; Operations Management; Industrial and Production Engineering; Operations Research/Decision Theory