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Increasing the number of product variants expected by the customers; decreasing product life cycles; operating existing production systems as long as possible, all these factors make the planning of new or the reconfiguration of existing assembly systems a complex and time-consuming task. Yet assembly planners lack adequate tool support in taking the right decisions by such competitive goals and to...
In the eyes of factory owners, energy management for their machines is becoming economically relevant. Most existing energy management systems use monolithic databases and low sample rates. This paper presents an approach that allows energy management on distributed modules. This yields the advantage of higher sample rates and information-based data exchange rather than transporting bulk raw data...
The term Industrie 4.0 carries the vision of smart factories, which automatically adapt to changes and assist the human as much as possible during operation and maintenance. This includes smart human machine interfaces, which reduce the chances of errors and help to make the right decisions. This paper presents an approach to equip the maintenance software running on a tablet PC with augmented reality...
This paper describes an energy trading model for efficient energy saving and management services. The energy consumers and suppliers in smart factories can trade their energy using the proposed model. First, the market participants register their information and select the roles of the energy suppliers or the consumers. They can change the roles depending on the situation. And the energy suppliers...
In the industrial automation a paradigm shift from centralized, static automation structures to reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) might be lie ahead. RMS are seen as a key enabler for the required changeability of future production companies since they can reduce the engineering effort needed for the reconfiguration of existing or the construction of new production systems. However, it is...
In order to achieve rapid development process and reduce the time to market, new approaches have been investigated for automotive body assembly design. This research presents a prospective study about using plant digital mock up to support industrialization process and design reviews. The concept of Digital Lot (DLot) is introduced as a design object to validate a layout and assembly processes alternative...
The fact that normal tasks of control blocks are highly complex and unnecessarily overfitted has led to superfluously high workloads with regard to engineering and development. Existing concepts of variability handling are not designed for this use case. Therefore we present a new variant description model and concept for a control block variant management technique. This concept ensures that the...
High value manufacturing (HVM) is a key sector; however, its products have a long development time. Adaptation in factories according to production requirements has been proposed to increase HVM's efficiency. In self-reconfigurable factories there is rapid relocation of production resources to perform different tasks. Due to this flexibility, the allocation and scheduling of jobs to resources is a...
We present the design and development of a benchmarking testbed for the Factory of the Future. The testbed as a physical installation enables to study, compare and assess robotics scenarios involving the integration of mobile robots and manipulators with automation equipment, large-scale integration of service robots and industrial robots, cohabitation of robots and humans, and cooperation of multiple...
Adaptability and changeability are becoming the key features of future manufacturing. With adaptability comes a need to dynamically and frequently change factory topologies throughout the life-cycle of manufacturing systems. These changes are necessary to respond to changes in markets that result in new products, production volumes, and product variants. In addition to flexibly switching between different...
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