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Title | ||
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An Approach To Identify The Optimal Configurations And Reconfiguration Processes For Design Of Reconfigurable Machine Tools |
Abstract | ||
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A reconfigurable machine tool (RMT) is a special machine that can deliver different machining functions through reconfiguration processes among its configurations during the machine utilisation stage. In this research, a new approach is developed to identify the optimal configurations and the reconfiguration processes for design of the RMTs. In this work, a generic design AND-OR tree is used to model different design solution candidates, their machine configurations and parameters of these configurations. A specific design solution is created from the generic design AND-OR tree through tree-based search and modelled by different machine configurations. For a reconfiguration process between two machine configurations, a generic process AND-OR graph is used to model reconfiguration operation candidates, sequential constraints among operations and operation parameters. A graph-based search is used to generate all feasible reconfiguration process candidates from the generic process AND-OR graph. The optimal design is identified by multi-level and multi-objective hybrid optimisation. A case study is developed to show how this new approach is used for the optimal design of a RMT. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1080/00207543.2017.1406674 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
reconfigurable machine tool (RMT), machine configurations, reconfiguration processes, AND-OR tree, AND-OR graph, optimisation | Journal | 56 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
11 | 0020-7543 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 8 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Moustafa Gadalla | 1 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Deyi Xue | 2 | 150 | 19.11 |