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  • A conceptual framework for a ubiquitous autonomous work system in the engineer-to-order environment
    Husejnagić, Damir ; Sluga, Alojzij
    Currently, Engineer-To-Order manufacturing com- panies are under high pressure from global competition and turbulent market excitations, resulting in increasing product variety, individualisation and ... shortened time frames. Addi- tionally, manufacturing companies are faced with the increas- ing complexity of products, production structures and pro- cesses. It is obvious that manufacturing companies with struc- tural rigidity, a deterministic approach to decision-making in a stochastic environment, hierarchical allocation of competen- cies and insufficient communication and exploitation of ex- pertise cannot achieve these requirements at an appropriate level. This paper presents the conceptual framework for a ubiquitous autonomous work system in the Engineer-To- Order environment by applying ubiquitous computing tech- nology and cloud computing to the manufacturing system. This approach aims to improve the performance of manufacturing systems by increasing their productivity, avail- ability, responsiveness and agility as well as support to decision-making and real-time operations management. This paper is structured in two sections. The first section presents the derivation procedure for the u-AWS framework in the project-oriented Engineer-To-Order manufacturing. The sec- ond section describes a case study based on online diagnostics and prognostics for asset conditions. This study is conducted in a workshop of a manufacturing system in an Engineer-To- Order company to provide a demonstration of the concepts.
    Source: International journal of advanced manufacturing technology. - ISSN 0268-3768 (Vol. 78, iss. 9, Jun. 2015, str. 1971-1988)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2015
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 13871387
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