Continuously growing pressures due to the shorter development lead-time and the
uncertainty of increasingly complex market require a high flexibility from production …

Nowadays, manufacturing environment is characterized by the necessity of customized
flexibility as well as coping rapidly and cost-effectively to changing market demands. These …

In increasingly unstable political, economic, environmental, and societal environments and
under the pressure of globalization, growing competition, increasingly complex …

Increased demand for a greater variety of products has forced many companies to rethink
their strategies to offer more product variants without sacrificing production efficiency …

ABSTRACT The Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) has drawn the interest of
researchers and practitioners due to its ability to meet dynamic customer needs while also …

This study addresses the problem of design of systems for recoverability and discusses that
a modularisation of the system architecture can effectively facilitate the recovering …

Abstract The emergence of Digital Twins in manufacturing enables in-depth integration of
the physical and informational worlds. Meanwhile, the concept of Reconfigurable …

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Configuration design requires designers to develop a configuration by selecting and
assembling from a subset of configurable modules according to customer requirements and …

While it is well recognized in the literature that modularity is a very important enabler for
reconfigurability in manufacturing systems, there is very limited practical guidance on how …