GIM: A technico-economic methodology to design manufacturing systems

Abstract

Managing manufacturing taking into account the objectives coming from commercial constraints such as flexibility, quality, etc. makes today's industrial systems, tremendously complex. Thus, designing such industrial systems leads to the use of structured methods in order to get a system finally working as expected at the beginning of the project. For this purpose, many methods are currently proposed. However, one of the main drawbacks of all these methods is that they propose no tool to evaluate during the project the technico-economic opportunities of the future system. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to present an integrated methodology to design CIM systems including a technico-economic tool supporting design choices, in order to improve the performances of the future manufacturing system.