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(Self-)adaptiveness for manufacturing systems: challenges and approaches

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Shrinking lot sizes and growing product variability demand frequent changes in manufacturing systems. Common manufacturing systems, however, are built for large, invariant lot sizes. (Self-)adaptive manufacturing systems can, on the other hand, react quickly to changes in both function and capabilities. This ability makes them suitable to meet new customer or production requirements. Introducing (self-)adaptiveness in manufacturing requires designing adaptable and flexible systems and anticipating runtime changes at design time. In this article, we describe the engineering of (self-)adaptiveness of manufacturing systems by presenting definitions, significant challenges, and promising solution approaches. We limit the scope of work on designing and realizing such manufacturing systems based on reference architectures, self-organization, and knowledge-based reconfiguration.

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Acknowledgements

This work is a result of the project CrESt funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the Grant No. 01IS16043U, 01IS16043A and 01IS16043Q. The whole responsibility for the content rests with the authors.

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  1. Helmut-Schmidt University, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043, Hamburg, Germany

    Birte Caesar

  2. Technical University Munich, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Florian Grigoleit

  3. Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Guenther-Scharowsky-Str. 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Stephan Unverdorben

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Caesar, B., Grigoleit, F. & Unverdorben, S. (Self-)adaptiveness for manufacturing systems: challenges and approaches. SICS Softw.-Inensiv. Cyber-Phys. Syst. 34, 191–200 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-019-00423-8

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