Abstract
Industry increasingly faces the need to respond rapidly and effectively to ever changing market demand. This need is partially met by introducing a high degree of flexibility into all industry phases, especially manufacturing. Group technology idea has been widely applied to the metal cutting area. In many instances, significant productivity gains have been achieved. However, very little work has been reported in applying GT in the sheet metal manufacturing. Sheet metal parts produced in sheet metal process with/without plastic deformation (pressing, punching, bending, etc) are on the increase. These processes are becoming one of the major manufacturing processes. One possible reason for the limited GT application in sheet metal manufacturing could be the lack of a suitable coding and classification system. Results indicated here say that the proposed GT concept would increase production system flexibility.
Highlights
In today’s competitive environment market computer integrated manufacturing and computer integrated systems must be flexible
The flexibility of manufacturing system is one measure of its ability to adapt to market demand, technology changing and production process conditions
In GT-concept, workpieces with similar characteristics are grouped into families in order to facilitate design and manufacturing processes, quality control and assembly
Summary
In today’s competitive environment market computer integrated manufacturing and computer integrated systems must be flexible In these systems we use computer technology to integrate manufacturing activities such as design, production and process planning and control, programming, production automation, etc. The flexibility of manufacturing system is one measure of its ability to adapt to market demand, technology changing and production process conditions. The system classifies the sheet metal part spectrum into groups with defined similarities and/or features with the aid of a computer system in order that information and knowledge regarding the search for similarity features can be retrieved if required This is the only chance to avoid that one known construction is permanently newly invented with an exploding multitude of variations. Not at the end, the system flexibility was significantly increased [1], [2]
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