Development of New Configurable Process-Resource Modelling Unit for Dynamic Manufacturing System Design

摘要

This paper presents the development of a new modelling constructs enable human and technical resource system to be described coherently and explicitly as 'configurable', 're-usable' 'component' of manufacturing enterprise, so as to support agile dynamic manufacturing process-resource system design and decision making. These components are referred to as 'Dynamic Producer Units' or DPUs. DPU characterization is designed to facilitate: (1) Graphical Representation (2) Explicit Specification and (3) Implementation Description of Resource systems. This enable the modelling of responsive production systems; where such systems comprise user defined configurations of process networks, resource systems and time dependent flows of units of work. The new modelling methods was then applied through a case study concentrate on engine assembly, illustrated how responsive production systems could be designed by using the method, followed by discussion of future development especially the capability of computer executable within simulation modelling environments.