In nowadays’ changing manufacturing environment, designing product families based on product platforms has been well accepted as an effective means to fulfill product customization. The current production practice and academic research of platform based product development mostly focus on the design domain, whereas limited attention is paid to how production can take advantage of product families for realizing economy of scale through enormous repetitions. This paper puts forward a concept of process platforms, based on which an efficient and cost saving production configuration for new members of a product family can be achieved. A process platform implies three aspects, including generic representation, generic structures and generic planning. The issues and rationale of production configuration based on a process platform are presented. A multilevel system of nested colored object-oriented Petri Nets with changeable structures is proposed to model the configuration of production processes. To construct a process platform from existing process data, a data mining approach based on text mining and tree matching is introduced to identify the generic process structure of a process family. An industrial example of high variety production of vibration motors for hand phones is also reported.
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ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 24–28, 2005
Long Beach, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4739-X
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Process Platform-Based Production Configuration
Lianfeng Zhang,
Lianfeng Zhang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Jianxin Jiao,
Jianxin Jiao
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Shaligram Pokharel
Shaligram Pokharel
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Lianfeng Zhang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jianxin Jiao
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shaligram Pokharel
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Paper No:
DETC2005-85559, pp. 1091-1102; 12 pages
Published Online:
June 11, 2008
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Zhang, L, Jiao, J, & Pokharel, S. "Process Platform-Based Production Configuration." Proceedings of the ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2: 31st Design Automation Conference, Parts A and B. Long Beach, California, USA. September 24–28, 2005. pp. 1091-1102. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2005-85559
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