Present planning and development practices of reconfigurable manufacturing systems often show significant deficits according to validation of customer needs, cooperation and collaboration between developers, completeness, understandability and integration of specifications handled throughout development. To prevent the resulting problems (e.g., delayed development progress, increased cost), a reference process and modeling concept for the parallel and integrated planning and development based on current practices was developed. The reference process is defined in terms of roles (e.g., customer, control engineer, mechanics engineer), activities (e.g., determining requirements), interfaces (e.g., knowledge base), and specifications (e.g., requirements, machining, plant design). The modeling concept structures the specifications into multiple views (e.g., part families, machining, processing, structure) with clearly defined semantics and interrelationships. The method and the realized software tool will be verified at the example of transfer lines.
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Present planning and development practices of reconfigurable manufacturing systems often show significant deficits according to validation of customer needs, cooperation and collaboration between developers, completeness, understandability and integration of specifications handled throughout development. To prevent the resulting problems (e.g., delayed development progress, increased cost), a reference process and modeling concept for the parallel and integrated planning and development based on...
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