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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010)
Original Research Article

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems as an Application of Mass Customisation

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  • Steffen N. Joergensen,
  • Kjeld Nielsen,
  • Kaj A. Joergensen
Steffen N. Joergensen InMoTx Europe

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Kjeld Nielsen Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University

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Kaj A. Joergensen Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University

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Published 2010-09-30

Keywords

  • Reconfiguable Manufacturing System,
  • Configuration,
  • Mass Customisation,
  • Modular Product Architecture

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Abstract

Manufacturing systems are today developed as engineer to order solutions tailored to producing a specific product or a limited product mix. Such dedicated systems are not consistent with market demands for rapid product changes, product variety, and customisation, which require flexibility and responsiveness of manufacturing systems. A Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) is aimed at possess such flexibility and responsiveness and is said to be the manufacturing paradigm of tomorrow. RMS is, though, not yet fully developed. A similarity between RMS and modular product families, known from Mass Customisation (MC), is seen and based on this similarity a potential to maturing RMS further by applying MC methods and techniques is identified. Based on literature surveys this paper analyses this potential by diagnosing gabs for RMS to succeed as a MC product. For each gab MC theory holds related methods and techniques, which indicates a potential and, herby, an area of interest for further study.

 

Article history: Received (15.07.2010); Revised (26.09.2010); Accepted (02.10.2010)  

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