Abstract
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. The findings show that RMS sustainable manufacturing performance can be improved by selecting a suitable level of convertibility.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2018.10.024
Repository Citation
Huang, Aihua; Badurdeen, Fazleena; and Jawahir, Ibrahim S., "Towards Developing Sustainable Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems" (2018). Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications. 61.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/me_facpub/61
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Procedia Manufacturing, v. 17, p. 1136-1143.
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).