Abstract
Recent happenings are surrounding the manufacturing sector leading to intense progress towards the development of effective distributed collaborative manufacturing environments. This evolving collaborative manufacturing not only focuses on digitalisation of this environment but also necessitates service-dependent manufacturing system that offers an uninterrupted approach to a number of diverse, complicated, dynamic manufacturing operations management systems at a common work place (hub). This research presents a novel telefacturing based distributed manufacturing environment for recommending the manufacturing services based on the user preferences. The first step in this direction is to deploy the most advanced tools and techniques, that is, Ontology-based Protégé 5.0 software for transforming the huge stored knowledge/information into XML schema of Ontology Language (OWL) documents and Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling (IPPS) for multijobs in a collaborative manufacturing system. Thereafter, we also investigate the possibilities of allocation of skilled workers to the best feasible operations sequence. In this context, a mathematical model is formulated for the considered objectives, that is, minimization of makespan and total training cost of the workers. With an evolutionary algorithm and developed heuristic algorithm, the performance of the proposed manufacturing system has been improved. Finally, to manifest the capability of the proposed approach, an illustrative example from the real-time manufacturing industry is validated for optimal service recommendation.
Highlights
In this era of information technology, manufacturing industries are accosting challenges due to globalization, high technology advancement, increased outsourcing, and high consolidation and at the same time an imminent movement of skilled technical labors has led to a risk to a greater extent
To alleviate the above-mentioned issue of nonavailability of skilled workers, the current paper presents a new paradigm in the distributed manufacturing environment, that is, telefacturing which isolates the workforce and the factory, where the enterprise is established in such a way that it can function in areas which are more suited for manufacturing processes with lower tax rates and land values, whilst the workers can perform and reside in areas they wish such as metropolitan and urban areas
We have proposed a distributed manufacturing based telefacturing approach for better collaboration and coordination of enterprises which are geographically distributed and for the proper allocation of hubs (Common work places) for the workers who are capable of performing multiple jobs in a single work place
Summary
In this era of information technology, manufacturing industries are accosting challenges due to globalization, high technology advancement, increased outsourcing, and high consolidation and at the same time an imminent movement (from rural to urban areas) of skilled technical labors has led to a risk (shortage of skilled laborers) to a greater extent. To alleviate the above-mentioned issue of nonavailability of skilled workers, the current paper presents a new paradigm in the distributed manufacturing environment, that is, telefacturing which isolates the workforce and the factory, where the enterprise is established in such a way that it can function in areas which are more suited for manufacturing processes with lower tax rates and land values, whilst the workers can perform and reside in areas they wish such as metropolitan and urban areas In this kind of pattern, workers in distant locations can be able to perform their job remotely by controlling robots and remote sensing and other telecommunication devices [1].
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