The reconfiguration problem of manufacturing systems

Günümüz üretim ortamları artan bir hızla değişkenleşmektedir. Bu tip belirsiz üretim ortamlarında rekabetçiliği ve çevikliği sürdürebilmek için üretim sistemini yeniden biçimlendirebilecek yeni tasarım stratejilerinin geliştirilmesi gerekmektedir. Literatürde, dinamik üretim ortamlarının gereksinimleri karşılamak üzere bazı yeni metodolojiler ileri sürüldü. Bu yeni geliştirilen yöntemler şu şekilde adlandırılmaktadır: Biyolojik üretim sistemleri, Holonik üretim sistemleri, Fraktal üretim sistemleri ve Sanal gerçek hücresel üretim sistemleri. Bu yöntemler hala araştırma ve geliştirme aşamasında olup, bu konular üzerindeki araştırmalar tüm dünyada devam etmektedir. Bu makalede, üretim sistemlerinin yeniden biçimlendirilmesi yörüngesinde bu yeni yöntemler tartışılmış ve özetlenmiştir. Makalede ayrıca, üretim sistemlerinin yeniden biçimlendirilmesi için çok objektifli eniyileme ile benzetim tabanlı entegre bir yeniden biçimlendirme çatısı tanıtıldı ve tartışıldı.

Üretim sistemlerinin yeniden biçimlendirilmesi problemi

Manufacturing environments are becoming increasingly volatile nowadays. For sustaining competitiveness and agility under this unpredictable environment new design strategies for the reconfiguration of production facilities should be developed. In the literature several strategies are proposed for designing and reconfiguring manufacturing systems to meet the challenges of the dynamic manufacturing environments. Some of these newly emerged strategies are named as: Biological manufacturing systems, Kolonie manufacturing systems, Fractal manufacturing systems and Virtual cellular manufacturing systems. These methodologies are still under development and research on them is still continuing all around the world. In this paper a review and discussion of these methodologies in relation to manufacturing systems reconfiguration is given, hi the paper an integrated framework, which is mainly based on multiple objective simulation optimisation is also introduced and discussed.

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