Paper Info
Title
Challenges and Properties for Bio-inspiration in Manufacturing.
Abstract
The increasing market fluctuations and customized products demand have dramatically changed the focus of industry towards organizational sustainability and supply chain agility. Such critical changes inevitably have a direct impact on the shop-floor operational requirements. In this sense, a number of innovative production paradigms emerged, providing the necessary theoretical background to such systems. Due to similarities between innovative modular production floors and natural complex systems, modern paradigms theoretically rely on bio-inspired concepts to attain the characteristics of biological systems. Nevertheless, during the implementation phase, bio-inspired principles tend to be left behind in favor of more traditional approaches, resulting in simple distributed systems with considerable limitations regarding scalability, reconfigurable ability and distributed problem resolution. This paper analyzes and presents a brief critical review on how bio-inspired concepts are currently being explored in the manufacturing environment, in an attempt to formulate a number of challenges and properties that need to be considered in order to implement manufacturing systems that closely follow the biological principles and consequently present overall characteristics of complex natural systems.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Bio-inspiration,Self-Organization,Manufacturing Systems
Field
DocType
Volume
Complex system,Telecommunications,Computer science,Self-organization,Control engineering,Risk analysis (engineering),Operational requirements,Supply chain,Modular design,Sustainability,Scalability,Production engineering
Conference
423
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1868-4238
2
0.40
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Ferreira1112.05
Luis Ribeiro219525.77
Mauro Onori3469.86
José Barata49013.41