Manufacturing Systems Paradigms |
- Manufacturing system design, planning, operation, and control
- Complexity, flexibility, reconfigurability and responsiveness agility
- Reliability, availability, dependability and safety
- Metrics for change characteristics
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Factory Planning and Control |
- Reconfigurable and agile factory and supply chain design
- Control of machines, robots and factories for changeable manufacturing
- Modeling and simulation of reconfigurable factories
- Implementation of changeable and reconfigurable manufacturing systems
- Logistics, material-flow and storage
- Knowledge management, data process management in digital enterprise
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Product Development and Production Planning |
- Changeability in product development
- Integrated evolution of products, processes and manufacturing systems
- Process planning for reconfigurable production
- Production planning and control for changeable manufacturing
- Rapid product/process prototyping, development and virtual ramp-up
- Virtual and augmented reality product/process development
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Cost and Risk Management |
- Plant asset management under uncertainty
- Cost of changeability, flexibility and reconfigurability
- Methodologies to support dynamic risk management
- Business and production models for a turbulent environment
- Cost-engineering and justification of changeable, agile, reconfigurable and virtual production
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Enterprise Design and Knowledge Management |
- Human-centered design, manufacture and organizational structures
- Transformation and change management
- Life cycle and sustainable development of products and systems
- Distributed manufacturing and control and web-based applications
- Global production systems and co-operation within global networks
- Demographic development and production, socio-economic issues
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