Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Transformable Factories

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXIII

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2. State of the Art

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XXXIII

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   2. Globalization and Decentralization of Manufacturing

      • E. Abele, J. Elzenheimer, T. Liebeck, T. Meyer

      Pages 3-13

   3. New Trends in Production

      • E. Westkämper

      Pages 15-26

   4. General RMS Characteristics. Comparison with Dedicated and Flexible Systems

      • Y. Koren

      Pages 27-45

   5. Progress in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

      • U. Heisel, M. Meitzner

      Pages 47-62

   6. Agile Manufacturing Systems – a Significant Quantum Leap for High Volume Production Approaches Flexibility Requirements as Well as Fastest Reaction to Market Demands

      • M. Berger

      Pages 63-76

3. Machines and Controls Forms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XXXIII

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   2. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Equipment

      • R. G. Landers, J. Ruan, F. Liou

      Pages 79-110

   3. Reconfigurable Machine Tool Design

      • Y. M. Moon

      Pages 111-139

   4. Challenges in the Design of Reconfigurable Machine Tools

      • Z. J. Pasek

      Pages 141-154

   5. Reconfigurable Fixtures for Automotive Engine Machining and Assembly Applications

      • C.-H. Shen, Y.-T. Lin, J. S. Agapiou, P. Bandyopadhyay

      Pages 155-194

   6. Control Systems for RMS and Methods of their Reconfiguration

      • G. Pritschow, C. Kircher, M. Kremer, M. Seyfarth

      Pages 195-211

   7. Closed-loop, Fieldbus-based Clock Synchronisation for Decentralised Control Systems

      • Robert Koninckx, Hendrik Van Brussel

      Pages 213-235

4. System-Level Issues In RMS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XXXIII

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   2. Production System Modelling for the Evaluation of the Degree of Reconfigurability

      • A. Urbani, S. P. Negri

      Pages 239-257

   3. The Robot Cell as a Re-configurable Machining System

      • S. Sakakibara

      Pages 259-272

   4. Development of a Standard Reconfigurable Assembly Cell for Agile Manufacturing

      • M. F. Molnar, R. Fernandez, B. Huff

      Pages 273-294

   5. Computer Supported Decision Making System that Generates and Optimizes Layouts of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Equipment at the Early Stage of Design

      • O. A. Dashchenko

      Pages 295-325

   6. Reconfigurable Machining System (RMS) for Machining of Case and Similar Parts in Machine Building

      • E. Abele, A. Versace, A. Wörn

      Pages 327-339

Dear reader! In your hand you have the second book from the series “XXI Century Techno- gies. ” The first book under the title “Manufacturing Technologies for Machines of the Future” was published by “Springer” in 2003. This book is aimed at solving one of the basic problems in the development of modern machine-building – working out of technologies and manufacturing equipment which would promote the continuous development and improvement of the final product design, rapidly “adaptable” to the requirements of the market as for the quantity, quality, and variety of products manufactured with the lowest cost and minimum time and labor of the product process. In this book the problems of theory and practice of development in the reconfigurable manufacturing systems and transformable factories for various machine-building branches with a focus on automotive industry are discussed. The problems concerning the development of a new class of production systems which in comparison to the flexible manufact- ing systems are composed of a far less quantity of machine-tools (reduced cost of production) are discussed. In comparison to the conventional automated lines (dedicated systems) they make it possible to rapidly transform the equipment for new products manufacturing. The book has some advantages concerning the art of scientific ideas and the presentation of developments.

• Assembly Methods
• Factory Transformability
• Rapid Prototyping
• Trend
• control
• control system
• design
• laser
• logistics
• machining
• manufacturing
• modeling
• optimization
• process optimization
• robot

• Moscow State Technical University MAMI, Moskva, Russian Federation

  Anatoli I. Dashchenko

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