Vumark’s Method of Production Layout Designing

Abstract

The paper deals with the issue of the mixed-reality usage in the design of production systems, its changes during expansion, or technological changes in the production, where it is necessary to flexibly and quickly verify the integration of a new machine into the existing layout and eliminate collision situations even before the installation of a physical machine in production. This is realized through Vumark’s design methodology, which was verified and applied in the conditions of the production environment of the Innovation and Prototyping Centre in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Kosice. The individual parts of the paper describe the Vumark deployment procedure in the production area and the software and hardware resources that the user can apply. Three production machines and one robotic device selected from the Factory design software database were chosen for the experiment. The chosen method enables us to verify during the experiment several variants of deployment the machines in the layout and thus to find the optimal location in a very short time. The experiment showed that the chosen method is applicable in practice and brings savings of time, costs, and energy especially when changing the layout or replacing the machine in the production hall.

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“…The selected approach makes it possible to quickly identify the ideal location for the machines in the layout solution by verifying multiple machine placement options during the trial. The experiment demonstrated that the selected approach is workable in real-world scenarios and results in time, money, and energy savings-particularly when modifying the production hall's architecture or machine [7].…”