Title
Understanding Changeability Enablers and Their Impact on Performance in Manufacturing Companies.
Abstract
Managing and capitalizing on product variety, customization, personalization, decreasing batch sizes, as well as rapid new product introductions are prevailing challenges facing today's manufacturing companies. Changeable and reconfigurable manufacturing systems have been widely accepted as means to respond to these challenges, due to their ability to accommodate continuous and cost-efficient change in functionality and capacity. However, enablers of reconfigurability that should be selected during manufacturing system design are in current research rarely regarded in terms of their inherent relations and impact on manufacturing performance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore implementation relations between physical enablers of reconfigurability on system and equipment level and their effect on manufacturing performance. For this purpose, a quantitative questionnaire-based survey has been conducted in various Danish manufacturing companies. The findings suggest that most reconfigurability enablers correlate strongly in their implementation and their extent of implementation generally correlates with critical performance aspects such as profitability, ramp-up time, and life-time of production systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-99704-9_36
ADVANCES IN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT FOR DATA-DRIVEN, INTELLIGENT, COLLABORATIVE, AND SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING, APMS 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Changeable manufacturing,Changeability,Reconfigurable manufacturing,Reconfigurability,Survey research
Reconfigurability,Manufacturing systems,Manufacturing system design,Manufacturing engineering,Profitability index,Survey research,Business,New product development,Personalization
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
535
1868-4238
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
5