TY - JOUR
T1 - Synchronization-oriented reconfiguration of FPAI under graduation intelligent manufacturing system in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
AU - Guo, Daqiang
AU - Li, Mingxing
AU - Ling, Shiquan
AU - Zhong, Ray Y.
AU - Rong, Yiming
AU - Huang, George Q.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Zhejiang Provincial, Hangzhou Municipal, Lin’an City governments ; 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 ).
Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Zhejiang Provincial, Hangzhou Municipal, Lin'an City governments; 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).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Society of Manufacturing Engineers
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Companies with manufacturing systems that are more responsive and resilient will be able to survive or even gain market shares in the face of the unpredicted variable of an outbreak similar to the COVID-19 pandemic. Motivated by an industrial company restructuring its manufacturing system with the layout of fixed-position assembly islands (FPAI) during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper introduces the synchronization-oriented reconfiguration of FPAI under Graduation Intelligent Manufacturing System (GiMS). Inspired by the graduation ceremony, a novel manufacturing mode-Graduation Manufacturing System (GMS) with ticket-based reconfigurable structures, is designed for organizing production operations with simplicity and resilience for the layout of FPAI. The IIoT and digital twin-enabled GiMS is developed for transforming real-time visibility in operations to support the reconfiguration of the manufacturing system. A synchronization-oriented reconfiguration mechanism is proposed to achieve the synchronous interaction among changing customer demand, island configuration, and production activities allocation rapidly and cost-effectively. Cloud services integrating the proposed reconfiguration mechanism are developed for managers and onsite operators for supporting the successful reconfiguration implementation with enhanced operational visibility. Through the case study of an industrial company, the effectiveness of the proposed concept and approach is verified.
AB - Companies with manufacturing systems that are more responsive and resilient will be able to survive or even gain market shares in the face of the unpredicted variable of an outbreak similar to the COVID-19 pandemic. Motivated by an industrial company restructuring its manufacturing system with the layout of fixed-position assembly islands (FPAI) during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper introduces the synchronization-oriented reconfiguration of FPAI under Graduation Intelligent Manufacturing System (GiMS). Inspired by the graduation ceremony, a novel manufacturing mode-Graduation Manufacturing System (GMS) with ticket-based reconfigurable structures, is designed for organizing production operations with simplicity and resilience for the layout of FPAI. The IIoT and digital twin-enabled GiMS is developed for transforming real-time visibility in operations to support the reconfiguration of the manufacturing system. A synchronization-oriented reconfiguration mechanism is proposed to achieve the synchronous interaction among changing customer demand, island configuration, and production activities allocation rapidly and cost-effectively. Cloud services integrating the proposed reconfiguration mechanism are developed for managers and onsite operators for supporting the successful reconfiguration implementation with enhanced operational visibility. Through the case study of an industrial company, the effectiveness of the proposed concept and approach is verified.
KW - Fixed-position assembly islands
KW - Graduation intelligent manufacturing system
KW - Production synchronization
KW - Real-time visibility
KW - Reconfigurable manufacturing systems
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmsy.2021.05.017
DO - 10.1016/j.jmsy.2021.05.017
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85107457305
SN - 0278-6125
VL - 60
SP - 893
EP - 902
JO - Journal of Manufacturing Systems
JF - Journal of Manufacturing Systems
ER -