Paper Info
Title
Recent Advances In Research On Reconfigurable Machine Tools: A Literature Review
Abstract
A recent trend in research on reconfigurable manufacturing systems is the development of reconfigurable machine tools (RMTs). A RMT can be used as a group of machines through change of its configuration to satisfy different manufacturing requirements. A literature review is provided in this paper to demonstrate the state-of-the-art advances and challenges on research and development of RMTs from the perspectives of architecture design, configuration design and optimisation, and system integration and control. In architecture design, semi-open and open architectures based on modular design approach are often selected to allow different modules of the machine to be added and removed. In configuration design and optimisation, operations of reconfiguration processes are analysed and optimised to achieve variety of configurations with the minimum reconfiguration effort. In system integration and control, transfers of motion, energy and data among different modules of the RMT are carried out. The challenges in research on RMTs are also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1080/00207543.2016.1237795
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
reconfigurable machine tool, product architecture, product configuration, optimisation, control
Journal
55
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0020-7543
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Moustafa Gadalla1121.00
Deyi Xue215019.11