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Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production (CARV2011), Montreal, Canada, 2-5 October 2011

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Hoda A. ElMaraghy

    1. Faculty of Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

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  • Metrics of change in manufacturing and management strategies needed by industrial enterprises

  • New approaches for co-evolution of products and systems inspired by evolution in nature

  • Enablers of changeability in industry to help improve competitiveness

  • Outline of industry challenges and road map for research and development needs that would help both practitioners and academicians

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Table of contents (108 papers)

  1. Manufacturing Systems

    1. Development of manufacturing process chains considering uncertainty

      • S. O. Schmitt, J. Avemann, P. Groche
      Pages 111-116

    2. Optimal Sequencing of Machining Operations for Changeable Manufacturing

      • Ahmed Azab, Attia H. Gomaa
      Pages 117-122

    3. Manufacturing Concepts of the Future – Upcoming Technologies Solving Upcoming Challenges

      • R. Hadar, A. Bilberg
      Pages 123-128

    4. Analysis of Reconfigurable 2DOF Machinery for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

      • Ana Djuric, Waguih. H. ElMaraghy
      Pages 129-134

    5. Mobile Systems for Machining Large Work Pieces

      • R. Neugebauer, U. Priber, H. Rentzsch, S. Ihlenfeldt, D. Hoffmann
      Pages 135-140

    6. Methodology for Flexibility Measurement in Semi-automatic Production

      • S. Rogalski, H. Wicaksono
      Pages 141-146

    7. Automatic Configuration (Plug & Produce) of Robot Systems – Data-Interpretation and Exchange

      • G. Reinhart, S. Krug
      Pages 147-152

    8. Enhanced Survivability- a Framework of Self-Healing Mechanisms’ Installation Using Axiomatic Design in Agile Manufacturing Systems

      • D.T. Matt
      Pages 153-159

    9. Dealing with the unpredictable: An Evolvable Robotic Assembly Cell

      • M. Onori, P. Neves, H. Akillioglu, A. Maffei, A. Hofmann, N. Siltala
      Pages 160-165

    10. The Manufacturing Adaptability Scorecard - a tool to analyze the benefit of autonomous production processes

      • Corinna Fohrholz, Norbert Gronau
      Pages 166-171

    11. Framework for Distributed Manufacturing Systems

      • H. Nylund, K. Salminen, P. H. Andersson
      Pages 172-177

    12. Conception and evaluation of an age-differentiated task analysis and screening Method

      • M. Keil, B. Spanner-Ulmer
      Pages 178-183

    13. Adaptive Process Chain Optimisation of Manufacturing Systems

      • B. Denkena, J. Henjes, L. E. Lorenzen
      Pages 184-188

    14. Mapping the Task Time Performance of Human-Centred Assembly Systems

      • R. Folgado, E. Henriques, P. Peças
      Pages 189-194

  2. Product And Production Development And Co-Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. From Dedicated to Platform-Based Co-Development of Products and Manufacturing Systems

      • M.T. Michaelis, H. Johannesson
      Pages 196-202

    3. Nature Inspired Co-evolution in the Manufacturing World of Artefacts

      • T. AlGeddawy, H. A. ElMaraghy
      Pages 203-208

    4. From product architecture to assembly sequence: a method to develop conceptual Design for Assembly based on interface analysis

      • C. Favi, M. Germani
      Pages 209-214

    5. Networked product and production development for lithium-ion batteries

      • A. Kampker, B. Franzkoch, C. Nowacki
      Pages 215-220

    6. Requirements Management as a Success Factor for Simultaneous Engineering

      • G. Reinhart, J.F. Meis
      Pages 221-226
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About this book

The changing manufacturing environment requires more responsive and adaptable manufacturing systems. The theme of the 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production (CARV2011) is “Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability”. Leading edge research and best implementation practices and experiences, which address these important issues and challenges, are presented. The proceedings include advances in manufacturing systems design, planning, evaluation, control and evolving paradigms such as mass customization, personalization, changeability, re-configurability and flexibility. New and important concepts such as the dynamic product families and platforms, co-evolution of products and systems, and methods for enhancing manufacturing systems’ economic sustainability and prolonging their life to produce more than one product generation are treated. Enablers of change in manufacturing systems, production volume and capability scalability and managing the volatility of markets, competition among global enterprises and the increasing complexity of products, manufacturing systems and management strategies are discussed. Industry challenges and future directions for research and development needed to help both practitioners and academicians are presented.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

    Hoda A. ElMaraghy

About the editor

Professor Hoda A. ElMaraghy is Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Centre, University of Windsor and Canada Research Chair in Manufacturing Systems (since 2002). She obtained Master & PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University where she was Professor and founding Director of its FMS R&D Centre. In 1994 she became the first woman Dean of Engineering in Canada at the University of Windsor.
Professor ElMaraghy is a Fellow of CIRP, SME and CSME and senior Member of ASME. She received numerous honours and awards. She is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals. Her current research includes: Manufacturing Systems Flexibility, Reconfiguration and Changeability, Products and Production Systems Modelling and Co‐Evolution and Process and Production Planning. She trained more than 100 Master and PhD students and has over 380 publications.

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