Study on the Reconfiguration Cost of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

This paper presents the divided principle of reconfigurable cells based on operations containing degree, according to the attributes of setups' table. Analysing the relation between configurations and reconfigurable cells,then transfering the research of the reconfiguration between one configuration and the other to the reconfiguration among reconfigurable cells.Studying on the program of the reconfiguration among reconfigurable cells,and describing it by computer programming language(C++).Modeling the reconfiguration cost between one configuration and the other ,which is based on analysing the policy of the reconfiguration among reconfigurable cells.Finally,a case is studied to demonstrate the validity of models and the policy.