Decision Support System for Joint Product Design and Reconfiguration of Production Systems

S. Ehsan Ehsan Hashemi-Petroodi (1, 2) , Clemens Gonnermann (3) , Magdalena Paul (3) , Simon Thevenin (1, 2) , Alexandre Dolgui (1, 2) , Gunther Reinhart (3)

1 IMT Atlantique - DAPI - Département Automatique, Productique et Informatique
2 LS2N - équipe SLP - Systèmes Logistiques et de Production
3 TUM - Technische Universität Munchen - Technical University Munich - Université Technique de Munich

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are designed to be able to be reconfigured to produce new items. Nevertheless, reconfigurations of a RMS may be time consuming and costly if they are not considered since early steps of new item design. This work describes a decision support system to auto-matically generate and test configurations for such RMSs based on a computer-aided design (CAD) model of a new product. The proposed methodology consists of two main steps. First, a matrix of possible assembly plans (taking into account resource/tool compatibility, geometric constraints, …) is generated with a skill-based comparison between the new item and the production resources. Second, the assembly plan with minimum reconfiguration cost is found through mathe-matical optimization. The solution is analyzed by a simulation model in the end. Experiments performed on small use case validate the proposed methodology.

Mots clés: Reconfigurable manufacturing system; Production graphique; CAD models; Optimization Model; Decision support system; Skill-based approach; Production graph; CAD model; Optimization; Decision support system DSS

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation; Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

S. Ehsan Ehsan Hashemi-Petroodi, Clemens Gonnermann, Magdalena Paul, Simon Thevenin, Alexandre Dolgui, et al.. Decision Support System for Joint Product Design and Reconfiguration of Production Systems. IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), Sep 2019, Austin, TX, United States. pp.231-238, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-30000-5⟩. ⟨hal-02355032⟩