Importance of Coordination and Cultural Diversity for an Efficient and Flexible Manufacturing System
It addresses the need for flexible manufacturing systems for highly personalized products, but the results are preliminary and incremental.
The paper proposes a framework integrating a cultural evolution model to achieve flexible resources and routing for personalized manufacturing, with promising results from a proof-of-concept simulation.
Manufacturing systems of the future need to have flexible resources and flexible routing to produce extremely personalized products, even of lot size equal to one. In this paper, we have proposed a framework, which is designed to achieve this goal. Towards this, we have integrated an established cultural evolution model to achieve desired flexibility of resources and acceptable routing time. Promising results are evidenced through a simple proof-of-concept simulation.