Identification of the Optimal Design and its Production Process forOne-of-a-Kind Production
One-of-a-kind production (OKP) is a new manufacturing paradigm to produce customizedproducts based on requirements of individual customers while maintaining the quality and efficiencyof mass production.In this research,a computer-aided optimal product design and process planningapproach is developed to support OKP product design and manufacture to satisfy individual customerrequirements with near to mass production efficiency.In this work,a hybrid AND-OR graph isdeveloped to model the variations of design configurations/parameters and manufacturingprocesses/parameters in generic product family.Since different design configurations andparameters can be created from the same customer requirements,and each design can be furtherachieved through alternative manufacturing processes and parameters,co-evolutionary geneticprogramming and numerical optimization are employed to identify the optimal product designconfiguration/parameters and manufacturing process/parameters.A case study to identify theoptimal design configuration/parameters and manufacturing process/parameters of custom windowproducts in an industrial company is introduced to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developedmethod.
One-of-a-kind production (OKP) product design process planning genetic programming
G.Hong P.Dean W.Yang Y.L.Tu D.Xue
University of Calgary,Canada University of Calgary,Canada;Gienow Windows and Doors,Canada Huazhong University of Science and Technology,P.R.China
国际会议
成都
英文
2008-08-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）