‘Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems’ discusses key strategies for success in the changing manufacturing environment. Changes can often be anticipated but some go beyond the design range, requiring innovative change enablers and adaptation mechanisms. The book presents the new concept of Changeability as an umbrella framework that encompasses paradigms such as agility, adaptability, flexibility and reconfigurability. It provides the definitions and classification of key terms in this new field, and emphasizes the required physical/hard and logical/soft change enablers. The book presents cutting edge technologies and the latest research, as well as future directions to help manufacturers stay competitive. It contains original contributions and results from senior international experts, together with industrial applications. The book serves as a comprehensive reference for professional engineers, managers, and academics in manufacturing, industrial and mechanical engineering. The first book to deal with the new concept of changeability of manufacturing systems and its physical and logical technological enablers INDICE: From the contents Changeability.- Changing and Evolving Products and Systems.- Focused Flexibility in Production Systems.- Control of Reconfigurable Machine Tools.- Reconfigurable Machine Tools for a Flexible ManufacturingSystem.- Reconfigurable Machine Tools and Equipment.- Changeable and Reconfigurable Assembly Systems.- Unified Dynamic and Control Models for Reconfigurable Robots.- Reconfigurable Control of Constrained Flexible Joint Robots Interacting with Dynamic and Changeable Environment.- Reconfiguring Process Plans.- Adaptive Production Planning and Control – Elements and Enablers of Changeability.- Component Oriented Design of Change-Ready MPC Systems.- Dynamic Capacity Planning and Modeling Its Complexity.- Design for Changeability.- Changeability Effect on Manufacturing Systems Design.- Managing Change and Reconfigurations of CNC Machine Tools.- Economic and Strategic Justification of Changeable, Reconfigurable and Flexible Manufacturing.
- ISBN: 978-1-84882-066-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 445
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés