Industry 4.0 smart reconfigurable manufacturing machines

Morgan, Jeff; Halton, Mark; Qiao, Yuansong; Breslin, John G.

doi:10.1016/j.jmsy.2021.03.001

Cited by 211 publications

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“…He revealed several aspects related to RMS research and concluded that the field needs more focus for its growth. Further, Morgan et al (2021) presented review of RMS articles with the intention to study its adoption, recent technology and machine intelligence. However, the analysis of research articles using bibliometric tools is somewhere lacking in this domain.…”

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Reconfigurable manufacturing system: a systematic bibliometric analysis and future research agenda

Pansare¹,

Yadav²,

Nagare³

2021

JMTM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic bibliometric analysis of reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) articles using VOSviewer to identify their research themes and future research trends and investigate their interconnectivity. This paper also aims to identify prominent authors, publishers, organizations, countries and their collaborations in the RMS domain.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the Scopus database is used to retrieve 454 RMS articles published between 1988 and 2020. These articles are then investigated using VOSviewer to determine their interconnectedness, clusters and citations, as well as to generate a map based on text data. The network visualization diagrams and clusters obtained for documents, authors, sources, organizations and countries are explored to determine the current state and future trends in RMS research.FindingsA bibliometric analysis of selected articles is performed, and current research hotspots in this domain are identified. This work also investigates the current status and future research trends in this domain. The work presented also identifies top researchers, journals, countries and documents in RMS.Practical implicationsThis paper can provide academics, researchers and practitioners with additional research insights. At the same time, the research trends identified here can help to direct research and benefit researchers.Originality/valueThe study is the first attempt to review selected documents in the RMS domain using bibliometric analysis tools, and it presents a method for collecting articles, organizing them and analyzing the data.

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Section: Background Of Rmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconfigurable manufacturing system: a systematic bibliometric analysis and future research agenda

Pansare¹,

Yadav²,

Nagare³

2021

JMTM

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“…A system configuration of a reconfigurable system consists of a set of functional building blocks that are selected and assembled from available physical and virtual manufacturing assets for specific tasks [4][5][6][7]. A reconfigurable system allows the additions, removals, and modifications of functional modules without affecting the functions of other modules, and this helps scale the capacity of productions [8]. A reconfigurable system is characterized by its modularity, integrability, customization, convertibility, scalability, diagnosability, mobility, and adaptability.…”

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Generic Design Methodology for Smart Manufacturing Systems from a Practical Perspective. Part II—Systematic Designs of Smart Manufacturing Systems

Zhang

et al. 2021

Machines

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In a traditional system paradigm, an enterprise reference model provides the guide for practitioners to select manufacturing elements, configure elements into a manufacturing system, and model system options for evaluation and comparison of system solutions against given performance metrics. However, a smart manufacturing system aims to reconfigure different systems in achieving high-level smartness in its system lifecycle; moreover, each smart system is customized in terms of the constraints of manufacturing resources and the prioritized performance metrics to achieve system smartness. Few works were found on the development of systematic methodologies for the design of smart manufacturing systems. The novel contributions of the presented work are at two aspects: (1) unified definitions of digital functional elements and manufacturing systems have been proposed; they are generalized to have all digitized characteristics and they are customizable to any manufacturing system with specified manufacturing resources and goals of smartness and (2) a systematic design methodology has been proposed; it can serve as the guide for designs of smart manufacturing systems in specified applications. The presented work consists of two separated parts. In the first part of paper, a simplified definition of smart manufacturing (SM) is proposed to unify the diversified expectations and a newly developed concept digital triad (DT-II) is adopted to define a generic reference model to represent essential features of smart manufacturing systems. In the second part of the paper, the axiomatic design theory (ADT) is adopted and expanded as the generic design methodology for design, analysis, and assessment of smart manufacturing systems. Three case studies are reviewed to illustrate the applications of the proposed methodology, and the future research directions towards smart manufacturing are discussed as a summary in the second part.

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“…However, these studies are not directly applicable to the case in which the effective locators dynamically change throughout the trimming operation. From the grand vision of smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0, the epistemology of digital twin-embedded cyber-physical systems (CPSs) would bring out extraordinary smart and reconfigurable capabilities for new-generation intelligent manufacturing [17]. The motivation of the current work was triggered by this insight, and the author intended to explore the reconfiguration planning methodology for trimming operations on large-size thin shell parts held by programmable flexible fixtures.…”

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Digital Twin-Driven Reconfigurable Fixturing Optimization for Trimming Operation of Aircraft Skins

2022

Aerospace

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The incomplete constraint induced by multipoint reconfigurable fixturing and the inherently weak rigidity of thin shell parts significantly hinder the stability of flexible fixturing systems. In particular, during the trimming operation, the number of effective locators may change with the progressive separation of the desired shape from that of the blank part, which easily produces the cliff effect (instantaneous dramatic reduction) of the system stiffness. As a result, the location layout becomes a main crux in reality. Regarding this issue, the author herein presents a digital twin-based decision-making methodology to generate reconfigurable fixturing schemes through integrating virtual and physical information. Considering the intrinsic features of the trimming process, such as the time-varying propagation of the system stiffness and the coupling effects of multiattribute process parameters, the hidden Markov model was introduced to cope with reconfigurable fixturing optimization. To achieve fast convergence and seek a feasible solution, local information (where low system rigidity occurs) was extracted and shared to guide the optimization process in a front-running simulation. To demonstrate the presented method, trimming experiments were performed on a large-size compliant workpiece held by a reconfigurable fixturing system that was developed independently by our research group. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method could adaptively iterate out the optimal locating schema and process control reference from the virtual fixturing and trimming simulation to guarantee the time-varying stability of the trimming process in the real world. Clearly, the digital twin-based reconfigurable fixturing planning approach generated a high possibility of building a context-specific, closed-loop decision-making paradigm and allowing the reconfigurable fixturing system to behave in a more adaptable and flexible manner.

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Industry 4.0 smart reconfigurable manufacturing machines

Cited by 211 publications

References 145 publications

Reconfigurable manufacturing system: a systematic bibliometric analysis and future research agenda

Reconfigurable manufacturing system: a systematic bibliometric analysis and future research agenda

Generic Design Methodology for Smart Manufacturing Systems from a Practical Perspective. Part II—Systematic Designs of Smart Manufacturing Systems

Digital Twin-Driven Reconfigurable Fixturing Optimization for Trimming Operation of Aircraft Skins

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