Research Initiation Award: Flexibility in Manufacturing Systems: Models, Measurement, and Evaluation

研究启动奖：制造系统的灵活性：模型、测量和评估

• 批准号: 9309631
• 负责人: Saif Benjaafar
• 金额: $ 11.66万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9309631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Initiation; Award; Flexibility; Manufacturing

9309631 Benjaafar Although the issue of flexibility has become increasingly important to the design and operation of manufacturing systems, it has remained to a large degree ambiguous and poorly understood. The objective of the research is to address some of these limitations. In particular, the focus of efforts will be on (1) developing a generic modeling framework capable of capturing the various dimensions of flexibility in manufacturing, (2) providing robust and useful measure(s) of flexibility that reflect these various dimensions, and (3) establishing clear relationships between the degree of flexibility in a manufacturing system and the system's level of performance. More specifically they will address the following questions: (1) What constitutes flexibility and to which physical and logical characteristics in a manufacturing system can it be traced? (2) How can these characteristics be modeled so that flexibility can be easily measured and analyzed? (3) Which system performances measures, if any, are positively correlated to flexibility and what are the characteristics of such correlations? (4) What are the conditions under which flexibility may be of value and what are the operation requirements necessary for realizing this value? (5) How can the costs and benefits of flexibility be traded-off and optimal, and/or affordable, levels of flexibility be determined? The impact of the research results will be in increased useability of modeling and analysis tools and better measures of industrial system flexibility and performance.

9309631 Benjaafar尽管灵活性问题对于制造系统的设计和运营变得越来越重要，但它仍然在很大程度上模棱两可且知名度不佳。 该研究的目的是解决其中一些局限性。 特别是，努力的重点将放在（1）开发一个通用建模框架上，能够捕获制造业灵活性的各种维度，（2）提供反映这些各种维度的灵活性的强大而有用的衡量标准，以及（ 3）在制造系统中的灵活性程度与系统的性能水平之间建立明确的关系。 更具体地说，他们将解决以下问题：（1）可以追溯到制造系统中哪些灵活性以及哪种物理和逻辑特征？ （2）如何对这些特征进行建模，以便可以轻松地测量和分析灵活性？ （3）哪些系统性能度量（如果有的话）与灵活性呈正相关？这种相关性的特征是什么？ （4）灵活性可能具有什么条件，实现此值的操作要求是什么？ （5）如何确定灵活性的柔韧性成本和收益？ 研究结果的影响将增加建模和分析工具的使用性以及更好地衡量工业系统灵活性和性能。