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- Areth Koroth, Rohith, et al.
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Product Platforms and Production : Current State and Future Research Directions Targeting Producibility and Production Preparation
- 2021
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Ingår i: Transdisciplinary Engineering for Resilience: Responding to System Disruptions. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781643682082 - 9781643682099 ; , s. 332-341
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- New business opportunities are created when the advantage of changeable manufacturing systems expand beyond increased freedom in production location to increased freedom in product design. However, there are new challenges to overcome, including improved ability to design and adapt products when requirements from stakeholders quickly change and/or new technology rapidly evolves. Simultaneously, the producibility of each design must be ensured while keeping the lead-time of the whole process to the minimum. Changeable product platforms (both flexible and adaptable platforms) are gaining attention in both research and industry. However, the level of alignment and integration of product development and production is critical for the efficiency of the product realization process. In this study, we map the state of practice in five companies with an initial literature review. The companies had no formal platform strategy and faced challenges with variant management and development time, had manual processes for production preparation and reuse of technical solutions and knowledge happened through components and documents. The production preparation and reuse were dependent on the engineer’s competence. Future work will concentrate on identifying how manufacturing inputs can be added as a design asset in a changeable product platform to enhance producibility and production preparation.
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- Nordin, Axel
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GPU-Enabled Physics-Based Floor Plan Optimization Based on Work Place Analytical Data
- 2021
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Ingår i: Transdisciplinary Engineering for Resilience : Responding to System Disruptions - Responding to System Disruptions. - 2352-751X .- 2352-7528. - 9781643682099 - 9781643682082 ; 16, s. 455-464
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents an approach for optimizing floor plans using data collected from workplaces and a physics-based planning algorithm utilizing GPU-acceleration. The approach is compared to two approaches based on Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization. Common objectives, such as minimizing distance between related departments and daylight usage are optimized using the physics-based method in a case study of an actual plot and company. The results show that the physics-based approach is very efficient at handling large amounts of rooms compared to the other methods tested.
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- Poot, Leon Peter, 1990-, et al.
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Design and Production Automation for Mass Customisation : An Initial Framework Proposal Evaluated in Engineering Education and SME Contexts
- 2021
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Ingår i: Transdisciplinary Engineering for Resilience. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781643682082 - 9781643682099 ; , s. 71-80
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Maintaining high product quality while reducing cost is essential for mass-customised products, requiring continuous improvement of the product development process. To this end, design automation should be utilised in all stages of a product’s develop process and lay the foundation for automation of repetitive tasks throughout the process from interaction with the customer to design and production in order to mitigate errors and minimise costs. In this paper, a design automation and production preparation framework is proposed that can facilitate automation from initial stages via CAD to production. Examples of the framework are shown in the shape of proof-of-concepts systems developed by master students in the context of a course in design automation at Linköping University. Included disciplines such as automated planning of robot assembly paths, CNC manufacturing files and production drawings are described, based on design automation, Knowledge-Based Engineering, and design optimisation. Additionally, variations of the framework are implemented at three SMEs, and the results thereof are presented. The proposed frameworks enable interaction and connection between the "softer", human centred, aspects of customer interaction within sales, with more traditional "harder" engineering disciplines in design and manufacturing.
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- Safavi, Edris, et al.
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Aspects on a Digitalized Industrialization Process : Are There Challenges to Overcome?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Transdisciplinary Engineering for Resilience: Responding to System Disruptions. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781643682082 - 9781643682099 ; , s. 253-262
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased possibilities to utilize digital tools in the industrialization process where a product move from conceptualization toward mass production is challenged with how to develop resilience in such process. Several digital tools such as CAD, CAE, Production flow analysis, assembly analysis, and off-line programming of robots and CNC machines are commonly used in industry for both product development and production. There are also many good initiatives such as computational multidisciplinary design optimization or design automation in the aircraft industry to integrate such digital tools and increase the efficiency of the generating and distributing of information. However to maximize the benefit of digitalization, a fully digitalized platform is required where all parties including the product development team, manufacturing resources, suppliers, and even customers can contribute efficiently. Although establishing such a digitilized platform seems very promising, it confronts many challenges in a large firm. Hence, this paper, based on a theoretical outlook related to industrial observations, will explore challenges and opportunities related to the digitalization of product development and the manufacturing process.
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- Sansone, Cinzia, et al.
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Critical Operations Capabilities and Reshoring Drivers in a High-Cost Environment
- 2021
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Ingår i: Transdisciplinary Engineering for Resilience: Responding to System Disruptions. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781643682082 - 9781643682099 ; , s. 263-271
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reshoring of manufacturing to high-cost environments has been gaining attention. Several drivers are usually involved in the reshoring process. This process also requires manufacturing companies to assess their capabilities in relationship to the reshoring drivers. However, the connection between the reshoring drivers and the capabilities that the manufacturing companies have in high-cost environments has received little attention. The purpose of this study is to investigate the connection between the reshoring drivers and critical capabilities, through a transdisciplinary approach. This study was conducted through a literature review. The first step included the investigation of existing literature related to operations capabilities. The second step included the investigation of existing literature related to reshoring drivers. The third step included an investigation of the link between the critical operations capabilities and the reshoring drivers derived from the literature. Both sets of critical operations capabilities and reshoring drivers were linked based on their respective definitions. The findings revealed that there is a connection between operations capabilities and reshoring drivers. This study contributes to the development of both reshoring and operations capabilities research streams, and to practice by identifying the specific operations capabilities that can drive reshoring.
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- Sequeira, Movin
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Multi-stage fuzzy-logic model for evaluation of reshoring decisions
- 2021
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Ingår i: Transdisciplinary Engineering for Resilience: Responding to System Disruptions. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781643682082 - 9781643682099 ; , s. 312-321
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reshoring decisions are complex due to multiple groups of criteria that have an impact on the decision involved. In order to support this manual decision-making process, more advanced tools need to be developed. The purpose of this paper is to explore a multi-stage fuzzy-logic model to support the reshoring decision-making process through a transdisciplinary approach. Three relevant stages pertaining to reshoring decisions were identified: production resources, production capabilities, and competitive priorities. For each stage, factor loading values were used to create fuzzy rules. The model provides a decision recommendation based on a set of input reshoring scenarios. The research contributes to the reshoring literature providing a multi-stage fuzzy-logic model that simultaneously handles different groups of criteria, and to practitioners by contemplating different key competencies within a company during the reshoring decision process.
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- Wlazlak, Paraskeva, et al.
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Integration Across Knowledge Boundaries During New Product Introduction
- 2021
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Ingår i: Transdisciplinary Engineering for Resilience: Responding to System Disruptions. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781643682082 - 9781643682099 ; , s. 405-414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- New product introduction refers to all activities that are required to make a product possible to produce in planned volumes. To ensure smooth new product introduction, product and production developers work in a cross-functional and integrated way. Because of high degree of novelty during new product introduction and interdependencies between those involved knowledge boundaries are created. As prior research argues, different types of knowledge boundaries require different integration processes. For example, integration at a syntactic boundary is established by transfer of domain-specific knowledge across a boundary, while coping with semantic boundary requires a process of translation where learning about the differences and dependencies at the boundary is required. To be able to understand how to integrate product and production development across knowledge boundaries and hence support new product introduction it is important to understand what types of boundaries need to be crossed. To overcome the shortcomings of the prior research, this paper focuses on knowledge boundaries and prerequisites for successful integration in new product introduction. It is based on success stories from three large Swedish companies. This paper addresses transdisciplinary challenges and contributes to literature on boundary crossing during new product introduction and to practice.
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