Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems - ElMaraghy, Hoda A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Definitions and Strategies -- Changeability - An Introduction -- Changing and Evolving Products and Systems - Models and Enablers -- Focused Flexibility in Production Systems -- Physical Enablers - Manufacturing Machinery and Hardware -- Control of Reconfigurable Machine Tools -- Reconfigurable Machine Tools for a Flexible Manufacturing System -- Reconfigurable Machine Tools and Equipment -- Changeable and Reconfigurable Assembly Systems -- Logical Enablers - Reconfigurable Control Systems for Robots -- Unified Dynamic and Control Models for Reconfigurable Robots -- Reconfigurable Control of Constrained Flexible Joint Robots Interacting with Dynamic and Changeable Environment -- Logical Enablers - Process Planning -- Reconfiguring Process Plans: A New Approach to Minimize Change -- Logical Enablers - Production and Capacity Planning and Control -- Adaptive Production Planning and Control - Elements and Enablers of Changeability -- Component Oriented Design of Change-Ready MPC Systems -- Dynamic Capacity Planning and Modeling Its Complexity -- Managing and Justifying Change in Manufacturing - Products and Systems Design, Planning and Management -- Design for Changeability -- Changeability Effect on Manufacturing Systems Design -- Managing Change and Reconfigurations of CNC Machine Tools -- Managing and Justifying Change in Manufacturing - Cost and Quality Management -- Economic and Strategic Justification of Changeable, Reconfigurable and Flexible Manufacturing -- Quality and Maintainability Frameworks for Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing -- Maintenance Strategies for Changeable Manufacturing -- Future Directions -- The Cognitive Factory -- Migration Manufacturing - A New Concept for Automotive Body Production -- Changeable Factory Buildings - An Architectural View.
Keywords: Manufactures; Quality control; Reliability; Industrial safety; Engineering economics; Engineering economy; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing