Procurement of Reconfigurable Assembly System a Justification for
Effective Production ramp-up planning
Abstract
Production ramp up is important activity in manufacturing through which the capacity to produce necessary product variety, size
type, model, quantity , quality and feature is achieved. By introducing rapid changes in the product at manufacturing system
levels value for customers is created to meet target market, free market economy is the only solution to meet the changing
dynamics of the market and keeping a competitive edge in the market for staying in business. In this context, System dynamic
has been used to address the volume and capacity yield issues. Other core issues of production systems is automated and manual
assembly units in order to manage an effective and fast production ramp-up to respond rapidly to the niche market changes in the
demand cycles. This paper contributes and attempts to describe the dynamic behavior patterns involved in managing the
aforesaid challenges due to assembly by means of manual and automated assembly processes. Besides, this research concludes
that procurement of reconfigurable manufacturing are essential for having effective and fast production.
2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords : Ram Up, Reconfigurable Assembly, Production System , Manual assembly , Fixed
automation;
Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the International Scientific Committee of “The 6th CIRP Conference on Industrial
Product-Service Systems” in the person of the Conference Chair Professor Hoda ElMaraghy”