Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production (CARV2011), Montreal, Canada, 2-5 October 2011

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Change in Manufacturing – Research and Industrial Challenges....Pages 2-9
Adaptive Job Control in the Cognitive Factory....Pages 10-17
Mass Customisation as a Competitive Factor for Sustainability....Pages 18-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Linnaean and Cladistic Classifications of Manufacturing Systems....Pages 28-34
Integrating Ability Limitations into Assembly System Design....Pages 35-40
Selection Catalogue of Kinematic Configuration for Pick and Place Application....Pages 41-46
A Transition in Production and Planning for a Changeable Micro Manufacturing System....Pages 47-51
Using formal methods to model hybrid manufacturing processes....Pages 52-56
Considering Reconfigurability Characteristics in Production System Design....Pages 57-62
Ontology-driven Requirements Elicitation in Product Configuration Systems....Pages 63-67
Early Alert Cockpits for Changeable Manufacturing Systems....Pages 68-73
New Methods to Create Variants of 3-D Simulation Models of Manufacturing Systems....Pages 74-79
Product variety, flexibility and energy use in hot rolling mills....Pages 80-85
Lost Value Mapping – A Fast Method to Track Lost Value in a Production Flow....Pages 86-91
A survey on changeability of machine tools....Pages 92-98
Quantifying the Effect of Enterprise Strategic Flexibility....Pages 99-104
Decision Making During Design and Reconfiguration of Modular Assembly Lines....Pages 105-110
Development of manufacturing process chains considering uncertainty....Pages 111-116
Optimal Sequencing of Machining Operations for Changeable Manufacturing....Pages 117-122
Manufacturing Concepts of the Future – Upcoming Technologies Solving Upcoming Challenges....Pages 123-128
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Analysis of Reconfigurable 2DOF Machinery for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems....Pages 129-134
Mobile Systems for Machining Large Work Pieces....Pages 135-140
Methodology for Flexibility Measurement in Semi-automatic Production....Pages 141-146
Automatic Configuration (Plug & Produce) of Robot Systems – Data-Interpretation and Exchange....Pages 147-152
Enhanced Survivability- a Framework of Self-Healing Mechanisms’ Installation Using Axiomatic Design in Agile Manufacturing Systems....Pages 153-159
Dealing with the unpredictable: An Evolvable Robotic Assembly Cell....Pages 160-165
The Manufacturing Adaptability Scorecard - a tool to analyze the benefit of autonomous production processes....Pages 166-171
Framework for Distributed Manufacturing Systems....Pages 172-177
Conception and evaluation of an age-differentiated task analysis and screening Method....Pages 178-183
Adaptive Process Chain Optimisation of Manufacturing Systems....Pages 184-188
Mapping the Task Time Performance of Human-Centred Assembly Systems....Pages 189-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
From Dedicated to Platform-Based Co-Development of Products and Manufacturing Systems....Pages 196-202
Nature Inspired Co-evolution in the Manufacturing World of Artefacts....Pages 203-208
From product architecture to assembly sequence: a method to develop conceptual Design for Assembly based on interface analysis....Pages 209-214
Networked product and production development for lithium-ion batteries....Pages 215-220
Requirements Management as a Success Factor for Simultaneous Engineering....Pages 221-226
Bottom-Up Component Oriented FE-Modelling of Machine Tools....Pages 227-233
Assessment of the product based time expanding effect....Pages 234-238
Feature-based component description for functional graded parts....Pages 239-244
Towards a Feature-Based and Fine-Grain Product Repository for Heterogeneous Computer-Aided Systems....Pages 245-250
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Sustainable System Risk Analysis: A Triple Bottom Line Approach....Pages 251-256
Construction of a Digital Facebow....Pages 257-262
Evaluation of RFID Technology Application in Production of Fiber-Reinforced Plastics....Pages 263-268
Selecting Virtual Reality Tools in relation with their use context....Pages 269-274
A Framework Enabling Data Integration for Virtual Production....Pages 275-280
A Foundation for Integrating Hand Held Mobile Devices in a Computer Aided Manufacturing Environment....Pages 281-286
Parametric Internal Matrix Structures for Components Built by Fused Deposition Modelling....Pages 287-292
An Experimental Study to Determine Geometric and Dimensional Accuracy Impact Factors for Fused Deposition Modelled Parts....Pages 293-298
Flexible Tool-path Generation for Variable Geometry....Pages 299-304
A System for Providing Visual Feedback of Machine Faults....Pages 305-309
An innovative cross wedge rolling preforming operation for warm forging....Pages 310-315
System Dynamic Models and Real-time Simulation of Complex Material Flow Systems....Pages 316-321
Early identification of manufacturing process influences on product failure behaviour based on small field data volume....Pages 322-327
The aspects of energy in the Body in White process regarding product development and production planning....Pages 328-332
Refining Process Logic From CNC Part Programmes for Integrated STEP-NC Compliant Manufacturing of Prismatic Parts....Pages 333-338
Synchronisation of Distributed Configuration Tools using Feature Models....Pages 339-345
Change Management as an Enabler of Employee Knowledge Integration into the Design of Planning Procedures....Pages 346-351
A reconfiguration concept to enable versatile production in the automotive factories....Pages 352-357
Methodology for the Support of Reconfiguration Processes in the Automotive Body Shop....Pages 358-363
Gripper with Integrated Three-Dimensional Force Detection....Pages 364-369
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Change-Beneficial Process Architectures and the Human as a Change Enabler....Pages 370-375
Adaptive and Selective Assembling of Microscope Objectives....Pages 376-381
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
An Asian Perspective on Global Sourcing....Pages 384-390
Strategic Evaluation of Technology Chains for Producing Companies....Pages 391-396
Strategic Impact of Global Production – How to Find the Success Measures....Pages 397-402
Co-opetition as a facilitator of manufacturing competitiveness: opportunities and threats....Pages 403-408
Enabling Competitive Design of Next Generation Reconfigurable Manufacturing Enterprises....Pages 409-414
Integrated Environmental and Economic Assessment of Production Systems using a Material Flow Simulation Model....Pages 415-421
Towards Sustainable Development and Sustainable Production in Finnish Manufacturing Industry....Pages 422-427
Employee Participation in the Implementation of Lean Production Systems....Pages 428-433
Challenges Facing Manufacturing to Move towards a Green Society with Clean Energy Vehicles....Pages 434-438
Qualitative Growth and Sustainability in Organizations – An Overview....Pages 439-444
Enabling Car Body Customization through Automotive Framing Systems Design....Pages 445-451
Parts and Assembly Equipment Complexity Dependency Matrix....Pages 452-457
Analysis of Market Demand Parameters for the Evaluation of Flexibility in Forming Technology....Pages 458-463
Ensuring Human Safety with Offline Simulation and Real-time Workspace Surveillance to Develope a Hybrid Robot Assistance System for Welding of Assemblies....Pages 464-470
A Method for Multi-Scale Modeling of Production Systems....Pages 471-475
Efficient analysis, handling and use of customer complaints....Pages 476-481
Adaptive, Location-based Shop Floor Control....Pages 482-487
Relocation in Production networks of a Multi-National-Enterprise....Pages 488-492
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
A Modeling Approach to Analyze Redundancy in Manufacturing Systems....Pages 493-498
Influence of the European Emissions Trading Scheme on MRO Provider of the Civil Aviation Industry....Pages 499-504
Shifting Bottlenecks in Production Control....Pages 505-511
Simulation Based Detailed Planning for Agile Manufacturing....Pages 512-517
Product Variety Management in Design and Manufacturing: Challenges and Strategies....Pages 518-523
Capability Assessment and Valuation of the Implementation of Lean Production Methods in Turbulent Environments....Pages 524-529
Front Matter....Pages 531-531
A Novel Tool for Assessing and Improving Make-to-Order and Assemble-to-Order Production Systems....Pages 532-538
Reference Planning Processes for Series Production....Pages 539-543
The effect of manufacturing response time on mitigating the demand risk and facility disruption....Pages 544-549
Cladistic Classification of Ancient Manufacturing Forms and Technologies....Pages 550-556
Real-time capable Production Planning and Control in the Order Management of builtto- order Companies....Pages 557-562
Cross-company coordination in Built-to-Order Production Networks in Machinery and Equipment Industry....Pages 563-568
Type-Oriented Factory Planning with Solution Space Management....Pages 569-573
Optimum Restoration of the Shared Pallets Distribution Among Factories and Warehouses....Pages 574-579
A Consortium Leveraged Learning Network....Pages 580-585
Extension of Value Stream Design for the Simulation of Autonomous Production Systems....Pages 586-591
Building Blocks in an Experimental and Digital Factory....Pages 592-597
A new Approach to Simulation in Production Management....Pages 598-603
A Planning Approach for In-plant Milk Run Processes to Optimize Material Provision in Assembly Systems....Pages 604-610
Impact of Machine-Driven Capacity Constellations on Performance and Dynamics of Job-Shop Systems....Pages 611-616
Front Matter....Pages 531-531
Operator Scheduling Under the Lean Manufacturing Principles in Over-Size Product Manufacturing Facilities....Pages 617-622
Training concept and structure of the Learning Factory advanced Industrial Engineering....Pages 623-629
Supporting Project Execution for Adaptable Production Systems using a flexible software tool....Pages 630-635
Production pilot for co-operation in factory development....Pages 636-641
Surrogate Modelling as an Enabler for Self Optimisation for Production Processes....Pages 642-647
Application Protocols for Standardising of Processes and Data in Digital Manufacturing....Pages 648-653
Partner Selection in Innovation Alliance....Pages 654-659
Human-centred Model for Application of Lean Production Systems in Networks....Pages 660-665