Abstract
Change and disturbance handling are of major concern for manufacturing systems today.Market demand and environmental/societal pressures require manufacturing systems to adapt themselves at an ever-increasing pace, while supply problems and equipment failures ask for fast on-line re-allocation of tasks.Because the current manufacturing systems don't support these features, novel manufacturing systems are needed that can handle these changes and disturbances both effectively and efficiently.As part of the Mascada Esprit project, this paper identifies the requirements for such a novel manufacturing system for the PCB assembly industry.However, these requirements are also applicable to the sectors with the same characteristics - highly automated, line-oriented and discrete assembly.The current situation of the PCB assembly industry is also described in this paper and the key changes and disturbances are identified.For three PCB assembly case studies, new manufacturing approaches are proposed.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | [Title missing] |
Place of Publication | Nancy |
Number of pages | 10 |
Publication status | Published - 1998 |
MoE publication type | B3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings |
Event | 4th IMS-WG Workshop: Working Group on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems - Nancy, France Duration: 16 Sept 1998 → 18 Sept 1998 |
Conference
Conference | 4th IMS-WG Workshop |
---|---|
Country/Territory | France |
City | Nancy |
Period | 16/09/98 → 18/09/98 |