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Chapter and Conference Paper
Online Hazard Detection in Reconfigurable Plug & Produce Systems
Plug & Produce is a modern automation concept in smart manufacturing for modular, quick, and easy reconfigurable production. The system’s flexibility allows for the configuration of production with abstraction...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Software-supported Hazards Identification for Plug & Produce Systems
This paper presents a model-based safety software that performs Hazard Identification (HI) for Plug&Produce (P&P) systems automatically. P&P systems, inspired by Plug&Play in computers, aim to integrate device...
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Open AccessFrom CAD to Plug & Produce
Industries of low-batches or one-off manufacturing aim for automation that is competitive enough to adapt to new or modified products daily through in-house knowledge that focuses on manufacturing processes an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Online Path Planning in a Multi-agent-Controlled Manufacturing System
In recent years the manufacturing sectors are migrating from mass production to mass customization. To be able to achieve mass customization, manufacturing systems are expected to be more flexible to accommoda...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Framework for Hazard Identification of a Collaborative Plug&Produce System
Plug&Produce systems accept reconfiguration and have the attribute of physical and logical flexibility. To implement the Plug&Produce system in a manufacturing plant, there is a need to assure that the system ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Classification of Different Levels of Flexibility in an Automated Manufacturing System and Needed Competence
Mass customization has become more attractive but requires a transformation towards more flexible solutions in contrast to dedicated manufacturing systems. Flexibility includes complex tasks such as the introd...
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Open AccessConstructive cooperative coevolution for large-scale global optimisation
This paper presents the Constructive Cooperative Coevolutionary ( \(\mathrm {C}^3\) ...
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Constructive cooperative coevolutionary optimisation for interacting production stations
Optimisation of the control function for multiple automated interacting production stations is a complex problem, even for skilled and experienced operators or process planners. When using mathematical optimis...
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An efficient algorithm for press line optimisation
Automated manufacturing processes such as automotive tandem press lines include time dependent complex control functions. All motions and critical interactions between moving parts must be synchronised to avoi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
P-SOP Agent Generator for Flexible Manufacturing
In a flexible manufacturing industry the production planner may need to make an updated description of the control strategy every day. The description contains all possible routing paths and is based on actual...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Virtual Manufacturing Approach for Integrating Fixture Design with Process Planning
Computer Aided Process Planning has received more attention recently due to considerable progress in the aspects of both technology and theory. Beside the traditional trends and efforts to integrate the produc...
