Study on manufacturing cell reconfiguration for agile manufacturing

To optimize distributed resources under agile manufacturing environment, a model of agile manufacturing system construction was proposed. Various key factors, such as the time-cost for transforming work pieces between machining resources, extra-cost for remote management, and various possible machining routes due to various feasible resources were considered for the construction of reconfiguration model. Furthermore, the corresponding mathematic model of agile manufacturing cell reconfiguration was given. The intended function of this model aiming at the minimum cost was defined. The algorithm for constructing agile manufacturing system was analyzed. Finally, an example was well explained to validate the models.