An analysis of challenges and state of the art for modular engineering in the machine and plant manufacturing domain

Stefan Feldmann; Christoph Legat; Birgit Vogel-Heuser

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.08.113

An analysis of challenges and state of the art for modular engineering in the machine and plant manufacturing domain

Stefan Feldmann
, Christoph Legat
, Birgit Vogel-Heuser

Institute of Automation and Information Systems

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Abstract

The increasing challenge to manufacture individual products in short periods of time makes a huge amount of machine and plant variants necessary and increases the effort in engineering as well as managing the variability. An adequate support system for modular engineering would increase reuse of variable parts of the machine or plant and, by that, enhance the engineering efficiency. Nevertheless, such a holistic support system is not yet available. This paper analyses the challenges to be addressed and derives a problem model to be investigated for future research to improve the engineering of modular machines and plants.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	87-92
Number of pages	6
Journal	IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
Volume	28
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.08.113
State	Published - 1 Jul 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, Computer Intelligence and Telematics, CESCIT 2015 - Maribor, Slovenia Duration: 22 Jun 2015 → 24 Jun 2015

Keywords

Engineering
Machine and plant manufacturing
Reuse
Variant management

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