An agile production network enabled by reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Emergencies, and efforts to address them, create disruptions to local and global supply chains and surges in demand of emergency resources, which substantially affect global production. Reconfigurable manufacturing systems are promising solutions to improve flexibility and to reduce the effort neede...

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Published inCIRP annals Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 403 - 406
Main Authors Epureanu, Bogdan I, Li, Xingyu, Nassehi, Aydin, Koren, Yoram
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2021
Subjects
Decision making
Production network
Reconfiguration
Production network
Decision making
Reconfiguration
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Summary:Emergencies, and efforts to address them, create disruptions to local and global supply chains and surges in demand of emergency resources, which substantially affect global production. Reconfigurable manufacturing systems are promising solutions to improve flexibility and to reduce the effort needed to adapt supply chains and production networks to fit a perturbed environment. This paper proposes a method for coordination of reconfigurable manufacturing resources from multiple enterprises to structure ad-hoc production networks for critical products required in emergencies. Network optimization models and interaction algorithms are integrated to evolve the production network through synchronous machine-level and network-level reconfiguration driven by data.
ISSN:0007-8506
DOI:10.1016/j.cirp.2021.04.085