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Sustainable Living Factories For Next Generation Manufacturing, Yoram Koren, Xi Gu, Fazleena Badurdeen, Ibrahim S. Jawahir
Sustainable Living Factories For Next Generation Manufacturing, Yoram Koren, Xi Gu, Fazleena Badurdeen, Ibrahim S. Jawahir
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications
To be profitable and to generate sustainable value for all stakeholders, next generation manufacturers must develop capabilities to rapidly and economically respond to changing market needs while at the same time minimizing adverse impacts on the environment and benefiting society. 6R-based (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Redesign and Remanufacturing) sustainable manufacturing practices enable closed-loop and multi-life cycle material flow; they facilitate producing more sustainable products using manufacturing processes and systems that are more sustainable. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) and its characteristics of scalability, convertibility, diagnosability, customization, modularity and integrability have emerged as a basis for living factories for next generation manufacturing …
Towards Developing Sustainable Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Aihua Huang, Fazleena Badurdeen, Ibrahim S. Jawahir
Towards Developing Sustainable Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Aihua Huang, Fazleena Badurdeen, Ibrahim S. Jawahir
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications
This paper aims to examine the sustainable manufacturing performance of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMSs) using existing sustainable manufacturing metrics. RMS has six key characteristics including modularity, integrability, customization, scalability, convertibility, and diagnosability. In this paper, ‘convertibility’ is quantified by considering configuration convertibility, machine convertibility, and material handling device convertibility from the RMS perspective. In addition, the performance of RMSs with different convertibility levels is also evaluated by using sustainable manufacturing metrics. A numerical example is used to demonstrate the computational approach. Results of the analysis are used to show how sustainable manufacturing performance of RMS changes as system convertibility varies. …