Modeling and Development of an Activity based Process Planning Matrix, Its Optimization using Design Structure Matrix (DSM)

摘要

Process planning is a link between engineering drawings and the final part manufacturing. Industrialized process planning is the represents successive manufacturing processes so that to carry out organizational objectives. In this paper the automobile manufacturing industry is taken as a case study. Primary basic process plan is developed for a part and then it is modeled mathematically. This work is a continuation of previous my work on the modeling of process plan and its optimization. Here in this paper mathematically modeled process plan is then optimized using Design structure Matrix (DSM) in order to find optimal or sub optimal solutions. Study then explore the capability of DSM optimization method in handling optimization of manufacturing process plan. Finally the research examines the convergence of DSM optimization technique to an optimal solution for a reconfigurable manufacturing framework.