Is one designed at the outset for rapid change in its structure, as well as its hardware and software components, in order to quickly adjust its production capacity and functionality within a part family in response to sudden market changes or intrinsic system change.
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Optimizing the Reconfiguration of Machining Desktop Micro-Factory Based on Scheduling Simulation
Roberto Pérez (University of Holguin, Cuba), José Eduardo Márquez (University of Granma, Cuba), Arturo Molina (Centro de Innovación en Diseño y Tecnología Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico), Miguel Ramírez-Cadena (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico), Ricardo Del Risco (University of Camagüey, Cuba), Oropesa Midiala Vento (Universidad Autónoma Indígena de Mexico, Mexico), and Midiala Oropesa Vento (Universidad Autónoma Indígena de Mexico, Mexico)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0130-5.ch023
Abstract
Today, the micro-factory concept of downsizing production systems is essential to manufacturing small products in sustainable growth. Concerning this, this paper presents the developments accomplished during the recent years at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and Holguin University (Cuba) introducing new findings related to the design of reconfigurable micro-factories based-on micro-machine tools. The chapter discusses the proposed framework for the optimizing the development of micro-factories in the context of micro-reconfigurable manufacturing systems based-on micro-reconfigurable machine tools. The novel methodology for optimizing the scheduling of reconfigurable micro-factories were exposed and a scheduling optimization of a reconfigurable micro-factory prototype was designed and tested.