Collaborative design and planning for digital manufacturing

Jay Lee, Linxia Liao, Edzel Lapira, Jun Ni (auth.), Lihui Wang, Andrew Y.C. Nee (eds.)9781848822863, 1848822863, 1848822871, 9781848822870

Collaborative design has attracted much attention among researchers in recent years. With increasingly decentralized manufacturing systems and processes, more collaborative approaches are needed to support distributed manufacturing operations.

Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing presents a focused collection of quality chapters on the state-of-the-art research efforts in the area of collaborative design and planning, as well as their practical applications towards digital manufacturing.

A range of innovative methods and collaborative systems is analysed, examining the emerging technologies and their practical applications that contribute directly to digital manufacturing. Each chapter of the book addresses a specific new approach and offers practical solutions for real scenarios of collaborative design and planning in digital manufacturing. The authors discuss solutions in a number of areas, including:

• cross-discipline information sharing;

• workflow management;

• integration of suppliers into a process chain; and

• performance measures of distributed manufacturing systems.

Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing provides both a broad-based review of the key areas of research in digital manufacturing, and an in-depth treatment of particular methodologies and systems, from collaborative design to distributed planning, monitoring and control. Recent development and innovations in this area provide a pool of focused research efforts, relevant to a wide readership from academic researchers to practising engineers.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xx
Informatics Platform for Designing and Deploying e-Manufacturing Systems….Pages 1-35
A Framework for Integrated Design of Mechatronic Systems….Pages 37-70
Fine Grain Feature Associations in Collaborative Design and Manufacturing – A Unified Approach….Pages 71-97
Collaborative Supplier Integration for Product Design and Development….Pages 99-116
Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Design for a Contract Manufacturer Using a Co-operative Co-evolutionary Multi-agent Approach….Pages 117-136
A Web and Virtual Reality-based Platform for Collaborative Product Review and Customisation….Pages 137-152
Managing Collaborative Process Planning Activities through Extended Enterprise….Pages 153-185
Adaptive Setup Planning for Job Shop Operations under Uncertainty….Pages 187-216
Auction-based Heuristic in Digitised Manufacturing Environment for Part Type Selection and Operation Allocation….Pages 217-244
A Web-based Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing System for Rapid Product Development….Pages 245-264
Agent-based Control for Desktop Assembly Factories….Pages 265-291
Information Sharing in Digital Manufacturing Based on STEP and XML….Pages 293-316
Pulling the Value Streams of a Virtual Enterprise with a Web-based Kanban System….Pages 317-340
Agent-based Workflow Management for RFID-enabled Real-time Reconfigurable Manufacturing….Pages 341-364
Web-based Production Management and Control in a Distributed Manufacturing Environment….Pages 365-388
Flexibility Measures for Distributed Manufacturing Systems….Pages 389-405
Back Matter….Pages 407-413