TY - JOUR
T1 - Synchronization of production and delivery with time windows in fixed-position assembly islands under Graduation Intelligent Manufacturing System
AU - Guo, Daqiang
AU - Lyu, Zhongyuan
AU - Wu, Wei
AU - Zhong, Ray Y.
AU - Rong, Yiming
AU - Huang, George Q.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment to Hong Kong ITF Innovation and Technology Support Program (ITP/079/16LP), the 2019 Guangdong Special Support Talent Program-Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Team (China) (2019BT02S593), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFB1702803).
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© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - The layout of fixed-position assembly islands (FPAI) offers flexibility and efficiency for the production of bulky or fragile products with medium variety and volumes. With the unique production operations and customized delivery requirements in FPAI, the manufacturing practitioners are plagued by long waiting times, frequent setups, and high finished product inventory levels, which are mainly caused by the unsynchronous organization and operations of production and delivery. For achieving synchronization of production and delivery with time windows in FPAI, this paper introduces a concept of production synchronization with three pillars of real-time visibility and information-sharing, coordination of decision-making and synchronized operations. Following the concept, a synchronization-oriented Graduation Manufacturing System (GMS) with distinct functional tickets, including job ticket (JT), setup ticket (ST), operation ticket (OT) and twined logistics ticket (LT) is designed to organize production operations in an integrated and synchronized manner in FPAI. The IIoT-enabled Graduation Intelligent Manufacturing System (GiMS) with real-time visibility and information-sharing is proposed for achieving real-time operational visibility in FPAI. Under GiMS, consider customer requirements and production constraints, a coordinated decision-making model of production and delivery with time windows for FPAI is developed. The observation and analysis of the case company show the effectiveness of the proposed concept and approach, with the highest synchronous degree between production and delivery as well as the best performance in simultaneity (lowest waiting times), punctuality (minimum number of tardy jobs) and cost-efficiency (lowest setup times).
AB - The layout of fixed-position assembly islands (FPAI) offers flexibility and efficiency for the production of bulky or fragile products with medium variety and volumes. With the unique production operations and customized delivery requirements in FPAI, the manufacturing practitioners are plagued by long waiting times, frequent setups, and high finished product inventory levels, which are mainly caused by the unsynchronous organization and operations of production and delivery. For achieving synchronization of production and delivery with time windows in FPAI, this paper introduces a concept of production synchronization with three pillars of real-time visibility and information-sharing, coordination of decision-making and synchronized operations. Following the concept, a synchronization-oriented Graduation Manufacturing System (GMS) with distinct functional tickets, including job ticket (JT), setup ticket (ST), operation ticket (OT) and twined logistics ticket (LT) is designed to organize production operations in an integrated and synchronized manner in FPAI. The IIoT-enabled Graduation Intelligent Manufacturing System (GiMS) with real-time visibility and information-sharing is proposed for achieving real-time operational visibility in FPAI. Under GiMS, consider customer requirements and production constraints, a coordinated decision-making model of production and delivery with time windows for FPAI is developed. The observation and analysis of the case company show the effectiveness of the proposed concept and approach, with the highest synchronous degree between production and delivery as well as the best performance in simultaneity (lowest waiting times), punctuality (minimum number of tardy jobs) and cost-efficiency (lowest setup times).
KW - Fixed-position assembly islands
KW - Graduation Intelligent Manufacturing System
KW - integration of production and delivery with time windows
KW - production synchronization
KW - real-time visibility and information-sharing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rcim.2021.102236
DO - 10.1016/j.rcim.2021.102236
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85112601904
SN - 0736-5845
VL - 73
JO - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
JF - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
M1 - 102236
ER -