DESIGN OF RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS WITH STRONGLY COUPLED NATURE

作     者：LANG Sherman Y T 

作者机构：Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute National Research Council Canada N6G 4X8 ON Canada 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering》 (中国机械工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2007年第20卷第1期

页      面：91-95页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

主　　题：Mass customisation Reconfignrable manufacturing systems Reconfignrable robotic system Analysis Synthesis Architecture Adaptability Reconfignrability Configuration design 

摘      要：Today＇s manufacturing cnvironmem forces manufacturing companies to make as many product variations as possible at affordable costs within a short time. Mass customisation is one of most important technologies for companies to achieve their objectives. Efforts to mass customisation should be made on two aspects： （1） To modularize products and make them as less differences as possible; （2） To design manufacturing resources and make them provide as many processes variations as possible. This paper reports our recent work on aspect （2）, i.e. how to design a reconfignrable manufacturing system （RMS） so that it can be competent to accomplish various processes optimally; Reconfignrable robot system （RRS） is taken as an example. RMS design involves architecture design and configuration design, and configuration design is further divided in design analysis and design synthesis. Axiomatic design theory （ADT） is applied to architecture design, the features and issues of RRS configuration design are discussed, automatic modelling method is developed for design analysis, and concurrent design methodology is presented for design synthesis.