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Title:Generating reconfigurable manufacturing alternatives from legacy factories
Authors:R. Leite Patrao, R.R. Negenborn, A. Napoleone

Conference:11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (IFAC MIM'25)
Address:Trondheim, Norway
Date:June-July 2025

Abstract:Discrete manufacturing companies are challenged to transform their existing manufacturing system to be better prepared for the changes caused by unstable supply chains and new market regulations. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems is a manufacturing paradigm conceived to deal with change in a fast and cost-effective way. Most of the design methods for such reconfigurable systems do not take into account existing systems. Thus, this paper proposes a method to generate reconfigurable manufacturing alternatives from legacy factories. The proposed method uses the bill of materials and the initial production capacity as inputs, and its potential use is demonstrated with an illustrative example.

Reference:Generating reconfigurable manufacturing alternatives from legacy factories. R. Leite Patrao, R.R. Negenborn, A. Napoleone. Accepted for the 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control (IFAC MIM'25), Trondheim, Norway, June-July 2025.
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