A Modular and Flexible Design of Hyperconnected Assembly Factory

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Bao, Wencang
Roberto Campos Murcia, Miguel
Liu, Zhihan
Maurice, Julien
Babalou, Sevda
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 https://doi.org/10.35090/gatech/11066
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Modern assembly factories increasingly encounter the challenges posed by highly diversified products and fluctuating market demand. Hyperconnected mobile production, which organizes the core production equipment in standard production modules and allows them to be shared among multiple participants in the Physical Internet, is a solution in response to these challenges. In this paper, we adapt the hyperconnected mobile production concept to the assembly industry and introduce a fractal layout design. In our design, a fractal center is a standard assembly module with a predetermined throughput rate and is equipped to assemble all variants of products. All assembly tasks of an individual product, from subassembly to finishing, are performed in one fractal center. In addition, fractal centers employ mobile material handling and assembly equipment and operators that do not have to continuously occupy fixed locations. We illustrate the shareability, scalability, reconfigurability, and adaptability of the proposed hyperconnected modular design and present a design framework for fractal centers.
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2024-05
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