Management integration framework in a shop-floor employing self-contained assembly unit for optoelectronic products

Abstract

Abstract-To establish practices and technological environments for using automated production systems in manufacturing of optoelectronic products, with characteristics of high customization of final products, of low volumes, make to order and especially of high manual activity is a challenge crucial for the future of manufacturing in Europe for this manufacturing sector. White'R is an FP7-FoF-EU Project where the main goal is to design and produce a modular-adaptive -self-containedreconfigurable robotic island in a white room for production of two different types of optoelectronic products with features described above: laser diodes and solar cells. In this paper the production planning, scheduling and control issues of white'R for HMLV optoelectronics is discussed and a management integration framework is proposed. The management framework presented in this work aims to sustain any company employing a self-contained automated and re-configurable robotic assembly island to organize and unify the development of its manufacturing capabilities still guaranteeing the alignment with the organizational strategy developed at the highest level of an organization. Two real cases are presented but the framework is applicable to any company in the sector analyzed. This is the first paper with application of a general framework for HMLV products in a white room based, self-contained highly automated assembly environment.

A Novel Hybrid Fuzzy Multi-objective Linear Programming Method of Aggregate Production Planning

“…The different Capacity Scenarios associated to the different integration choices have been discussed in [2]. Briefly, in this specific production environment after the integration of the self-contained island there would be four different capacity scenarios:…”

“…In this section it will be discussed and extended the production planning and scheduling framework presented in [2] whose aim is to support the management of a company employing white'R visualizing the production planning and scheduling decisional problem and implementing proper Linear Programming (LP) models to solve it (see Sect. 5).…”

“…The plane framework presented and discussed in [2] it has been here developed parametrically in order to visualize preliminary parameters to consider for developing proper techniques for solving production planning, scheduling, material requirement and capacity planning problems (Fig. 3).…”

“…In this paper it is proposed a fuzzy multi-objective linear programming model based on the management integration framework proposed in [2] in order to solve the Aggregate Production Planning (APP) decision problem of a shop floor integrating self-contained production island white'R producing HMLV optoelectronics.…”

“…Afterwards in Sect. 3 it is briefly discussed the general management framework of [2] while in Sect. 4 it is proposed a novel fuzzy multi-objective linear programming model solving the aggregate production planning decision problem presented in the general framework.…”