TY - JOUR
T1 - A key feature-based method for the configuration design of a reconfigurable inspection system
AU - Shang, Xinwen
AU - Milisavljevic-Syed, Jelena
AU - Huang, Sihan
AU - Wang, Guoxin
AU - Allen, Janet K.
AU - Mistree, Farrokh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) can provide a customised manufacturing process to complete changes in operational requirements or machine status. The effective development of an RMS is supported by dynamic reconfiguration management that detects errors in the process and explores the reconfiguration strategy. However, existing studies on reconfiguration focus on production while ignoring inspection. In the RMS, a reconfigurable inspection system (RIS) is developed for data-oriented detection of product quality with the minimally sufficient number of inspection machines. We propose a key feature-based method for designing the RIS’s configuration to achieve a satisfactory RIS design, which detects different processes and satisfies the inspection requirement for each phase of the RMS’s lifecycle. The key features of the RIS (i.e. modularity, integrability, customisation, scalability, convertibility and diagnosability) are identified based on the RMS’s detection mechanism. An example of the RMS for a spindle box is presented to validate the method.
AB - A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) can provide a customised manufacturing process to complete changes in operational requirements or machine status. The effective development of an RMS is supported by dynamic reconfiguration management that detects errors in the process and explores the reconfiguration strategy. However, existing studies on reconfiguration focus on production while ignoring inspection. In the RMS, a reconfigurable inspection system (RIS) is developed for data-oriented detection of product quality with the minimally sufficient number of inspection machines. We propose a key feature-based method for designing the RIS’s configuration to achieve a satisfactory RIS design, which detects different processes and satisfies the inspection requirement for each phase of the RMS’s lifecycle. The key features of the RIS (i.e. modularity, integrability, customisation, scalability, convertibility and diagnosability) are identified based on the RMS’s detection mechanism. An example of the RMS for a spindle box is presented to validate the method.
KW - configuration design
KW - cost
KW - diagnosability
KW - error detection
KW - reconfigurable inspection system
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U2 - 10.1080/00207543.2020.1735664
DO - 10.1080/00207543.2020.1735664
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081390853
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 59
SP - 2611
EP - 2623
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 9
ER -