Title
Reconfigurable Manufacturing: A Classification of Elements Enabling Convertibility and Scalability.
Abstract
Reconfigurable manufacturing, providing capacity and functionality on demand, is an ever more important factor of competitiveness in volatile, unpredictable, and rapidly changing markets. In this regard, scalability and convertibility are considered particularly relevant characteristics, as they directly reduce reconfiguration effort and enhance system responsiveness. However, in previous research, scalability and convertibility have predominately been addressed conceptually on a high level of abstraction with only limited consideration of how specific manufacturing elements can enhance and realize them. Therefore, the objective of this paper is first to identify and classify elements enabling scalability and convertibility in order to bring reconfigurability-related concepts closer to the world of practitioners. Moreover, as a result, the paper concretizes scalability and convertibility and provides a foundation for future empirical research on reconfigurability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-30000-5_44
ADVANCES IN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT FOR THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE, PT I
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Reconfigurable manufacturing,Reconfigurability,Changeable manufacturing,Scalability,Convertibility
Conference
1868-4238
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessia Napoleone160.89
Ann-Louise Andersen285.98
Alessandro Pozzetti300.34
Marco Macchi43610.56