To Enhance the Display Factory’s Flexibility of Material Management by Applying TRIZ

In regards to a demand-oriented biofuel supply for the transport sector, this chapter considers the most relevant technologies and concepts for the production and supply of the most important liquid and gaseous biofuels and their current status quo. The limits of and opportunities presented by flexible biofuel production are considered. It has to be noted that flexible or part load operation of biofuel plants is not common. This also applies for most engineering plants in the chemical industry. Today biofuel plants are most commonly constructed as multiproduct plants such as bio refineries. Since the most inflexible step has an effect on the general system flexibility, intermediate storage, raw materials and various products are utilized in order to increase the system flexibility. Flexible management (i) of raw material and other input streams such as auxiliaries (reaction media, catalysts) and (ii) of plant operation in terms of main and by-products including the provision of products with high flexibility in application, is much more common than part load. In the article these opportunities are discussed for existing and new biofuel concepts. Furthermore, general issues of costing and environmental impact are considered.

Describes the assembly process at Volvo′s Uddevalla plant. Considers the layout, management of materials, flexibility, training, working conditions, and teamwork, as well as the historical reasons for adopting the coach‐built assembly principle. Surmises that the new plant has advantages in assembly cost, ergonomics and working conditions, and flexibility over conventional line assembly plants.

European Commission – 7th Framework Programme: The Collaborative Project on European Sodium Fast Reactor (CP ESFR)

The development of DAZACAD—An exploration of a theoretical building model in practice

In this paper, a flexible robot assembly system designed for demonstrating advanced technologies, such as CAD/CAM, flexible assembly systems (FAS) and material management technology in CIMS is introduced. On the basis of a principle embodying flexibility of manufacturing and assembly, a system that can assemble two different kinds of products without any modification is designed. The system is composed of a CAD subsystem, mini 3D storage, a sculptor subsystem and one flexible robot assembly subsystem. Products to be assembled and assembly sequences are designed elaborately. The main equipment of the robot assembly subsystem such as the assembly robot, screw-on robot and conveyor are introduced and the design of an end hand and assembly worktable is discussed in detail. A distributed control mode is adopted in the system. Flow of software including material flow and information flow is described. Assembly experiments of automobile models show that the assembly line can complete assembling a product in three to five minutes.