Adaptable design-towards smart one-of-a-kind product development
(2018) 25th ISPE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering 2018 In Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering 7. p.516-525- Abstract
The smart factories that are already beginning to appear employ a completely new approach to product creation. Smart products are uniquely identifiable, know their current status and alternative routes to achieving their target state. The embedded manufacturing systems are vertically networked with business processes and horizontally connected to disperse value networks that can be managed in real time. Smart factories allow individual customer requirements to be met and mean that even one-off items can be manufactured profitably. In smart industry, dynamic business and engineering processes enable last-minute changes to design and production and deliver the ability to respond flexibly to disruptions and failures on behalf of suppliers.... (More)
The smart factories that are already beginning to appear employ a completely new approach to product creation. Smart products are uniquely identifiable, know their current status and alternative routes to achieving their target state. The embedded manufacturing systems are vertically networked with business processes and horizontally connected to disperse value networks that can be managed in real time. Smart factories allow individual customer requirements to be met and mean that even one-off items can be manufactured profitably. In smart industry, dynamic business and engineering processes enable last-minute changes to design and production and deliver the ability to respond flexibly to disruptions and failures on behalf of suppliers. The paper presents a case study of agility enhancement of one-of-a-kind industrial environment. It defines how changeability integrates with robust and concurrent design strategies, and how the principles of adaptability, flexibility and modularity can be applied to improve the operations of a highly individualized product development business. Successful managing of ‘never-ending’ engineering changes seems to be the most important aspect in this field. Accordingly, introducing changeability to highly individualized production environment is mostly about enhancing robustness of new product development process, which leads into minimization of rework activities, reinforced reputation on the market and overall excellence of a company. Presented work aims at delivering a generalized conceptual framework that demonstrates how companies in such specific environment can improve smartness and profitability through the utilization of changeability concepts. The presented case study offers valuable insights into how to implement this in practice.
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- author
- Varl, Mitja ; Duhovnik, Jožef and Tavčar, Jože LU
- publishing date
- 2018
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Adaptability, Changeability, Modular design, One-of-a-kind production, Smart industry
- host publication
- Transdisciplinary Engineering Methods for Social Innovation of Industry 4.0 : Proceedings of the 25th ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering - Proceedings of the 25th ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering
- series title
- Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
- editor
- Wognum, Nel ; Stjepandic, Josip ; Pellicciari, Marcello ; Bil, Cees and Peruzzini, Margherita
- volume
- 7
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- IOS Press
- conference name
- 25th ISPE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering 2018
- conference location
- Modena, Italy
- conference dates
- 2018-07-03 - 2018-07-06
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85057977895
- ISBN
- 9781614994398
- DOI
- 10.3233/978-1-61499-898-3-516
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- f34ba21f-08fb-4dc2-8fd2-a94e0708a88b
- date added to LUP
- 2020-12-15 16:56:40
- date last changed
- 2022-04-19 02:56:17
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abstract = {{<p>The smart factories that are already beginning to appear employ a completely new approach to product creation. Smart products are uniquely identifiable, know their current status and alternative routes to achieving their target state. The embedded manufacturing systems are vertically networked with business processes and horizontally connected to disperse value networks that can be managed in real time. Smart factories allow individual customer requirements to be met and mean that even one-off items can be manufactured profitably. In smart industry, dynamic business and engineering processes enable last-minute changes to design and production and deliver the ability to respond flexibly to disruptions and failures on behalf of suppliers. The paper presents a case study of agility enhancement of one-of-a-kind industrial environment. It defines how changeability integrates with robust and concurrent design strategies, and how the principles of adaptability, flexibility and modularity can be applied to improve the operations of a highly individualized product development business. Successful managing of ‘never-ending’ engineering changes seems to be the most important aspect in this field. Accordingly, introducing changeability to highly individualized production environment is mostly about enhancing robustness of new product development process, which leads into minimization of rework activities, reinforced reputation on the market and overall excellence of a company. Presented work aims at delivering a generalized conceptual framework that demonstrates how companies in such specific environment can improve smartness and profitability through the utilization of changeability concepts. The presented case study offers valuable insights into how to implement this in practice.</p>}},
author = {{Varl, Mitja and Duhovnik, Jožef and Tavčar, Jože}},
booktitle = {{Transdisciplinary Engineering Methods for Social Innovation of Industry 4.0 : Proceedings of the 25th ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering}},
editor = {{Wognum, Nel and Stjepandic, Josip and Pellicciari, Marcello and Bil, Cees and Peruzzini, Margherita}},
isbn = {{9781614994398}},
keywords = {{Adaptability; Changeability; Modular design; One-of-a-kind production; Smart industry}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{516--525}},
publisher = {{IOS Press}},
series = {{Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering}},
title = {{Adaptable design-towards smart one-of-a-kind product development}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-898-3-516}},
doi = {{10.3233/978-1-61499-898-3-516}},
volume = {{7}},
year = {{2018}},
}