TY - GEN
T1 - Robust design of product families for make-to-order systems
AU - Hernandez, Gabriel
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
AU - Allen, Janet K.
AU - Bascaran, Eduardo
AU - Avila, Luis F.
AU - Salinas, Fabian
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Carrier Mexico for providing support for the realization of the present research. Gabriel Hernandez is sponsored by the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT), and Tim Simpson is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Financial support from NSF grant DM1-96-12327 is gratefully acknowledged. The cost of computer time was underwritten by the Systems Realization Laboratory of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1998 by ASME.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Although manufacturing plants dedicated to a singleproduct exist, most plants today make multiple products. Thepressure to compete via product variety and customization hasserved to increase the number of different products produced bya typical plant. The manufacturing systems of complex maketo-order families of products usually face problems associatedwith the high variability of processing times, supply deliveriesand market demand. How can product design improve theperformance of the manufacturing system of complex make-toorder products? In this paper we present a method, based onrobust design principles and a multi-objective decision modelembodied in the Robust Concept Exploration Method, tosupport concurrent decisions in the early stages of the design ofmake-to-order families of products. Emphasis is given toadopting standardization, modularity and robustness in productdesign as key principles to improve the performance of this kindof systems. The design of an absorber-evaporator module for afamily of absorption chillers is used as an example to illustrateour approach.
AB - Although manufacturing plants dedicated to a singleproduct exist, most plants today make multiple products. Thepressure to compete via product variety and customization hasserved to increase the number of different products produced bya typical plant. The manufacturing systems of complex maketo-order families of products usually face problems associatedwith the high variability of processing times, supply deliveriesand market demand. How can product design improve theperformance of the manufacturing system of complex make-toorder products? In this paper we present a method, based onrobust design principles and a multi-objective decision modelembodied in the Robust Concept Exploration Method, tosupport concurrent decisions in the early stages of the design ofmake-to-order families of products. Emphasis is given toadopting standardization, modularity and robustness in productdesign as key principles to improve the performance of this kindof systems. The design of an absorber-evaporator module for afamily of absorption chillers is used as an example to illustrateour approach.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC98/DAC-5595
DO - 10.1115/DETC98/DAC-5595
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33751339486
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 24th Design Automation Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1998 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC 1998
Y2 - 13 September 1998 through 16 September 1998
ER -