Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Automotive production is faced with the challenge of bringing new products to market faster, with decreasing turn-around times, meaning production must be continually changing to accommodate new products. This paper proposes an approach to decrease a product’s time-to-market, by increasing the effic...
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| author | Kujawa Kate Weber Jakob Puik Erik Paetzold Kristin |
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| description | Automotive production is faced with the challenge of bringing new products to market faster, with decreasing turn-around times, meaning production must be continually changing to accommodate new products. This paper proposes an approach to decrease a product’s time-to-market, by increasing the efficiency of automotive assembly unit design. Providing designers with conceptual information about future vehicle models early in the product design process, could shift the design start forward and enable a more efficient transition process. Large automotive companies work on vehicle design and development for years before a product is ready for production. If during these earlier stages of product design, significant changes are identified and communicated to production designers, the manufacturing system design can get a jump start with an early exploration phase. A method exists, which uses the Axiomatic Design theory to develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems through a modular breakdown. A similar method Adapt! employs Axiomatic Design and Scrum to develop changeable or adaptable production systems. This paper proposes to extend the Adapt! method to include an exploration phase, which through early communication, provides an overview of the required design process, and enables faster identification of the critical design challenges. A case study is performed by analysing a currently produced vehicle and its future electric version. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1b7f510c6f6497d8b4c0f3d7af775422022-12-21T22:50:19ZengEDP SciencesMATEC Web of Conferences2261-236X2018-01-012230100610.1051/matecconf/201822301006matecconf_icad2018_01006Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing SystemsKujawa KateWeber JakobPuik ErikPaetzold KristinAutomotive production is faced with the challenge of bringing new products to market faster, with decreasing turn-around times, meaning production must be continually changing to accommodate new products. This paper proposes an approach to decrease a product’s time-to-market, by increasing the efficiency of automotive assembly unit design. Providing designers with conceptual information about future vehicle models early in the product design process, could shift the design start forward and enable a more efficient transition process. Large automotive companies work on vehicle design and development for years before a product is ready for production. If during these earlier stages of product design, significant changes are identified and communicated to production designers, the manufacturing system design can get a jump start with an early exploration phase. A method exists, which uses the Axiomatic Design theory to develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems through a modular breakdown. A similar method Adapt! employs Axiomatic Design and Scrum to develop changeable or adaptable production systems. This paper proposes to extend the Adapt! method to include an exploration phase, which through early communication, provides an overview of the required design process, and enables faster identification of the critical design challenges. A case study is performed by analysing a currently produced vehicle and its future electric version.https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822301006 |
| spellingShingle | Kujawa Kate Weber Jakob Puik Erik Paetzold Kristin Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems MATEC Web of Conferences |
| title | Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems |
| title_full | Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems |
| title_fullStr | Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems |
| title_short | Exploring and Adapt! – Extending the Adapt! Method to Develop Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems |
| title_sort | exploring and adapt extending the adapt method to develop reconfigurable manufacturing systems |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822301006 |
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