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Economic Benefits of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS)

机译:可重构制造系统(RMS)的经济利益

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RMS is conceptually designed to incorporate the benefit of high capacity of DML and adaptability of FMS in the rapidly changing market condition in a mass-production environment. In this study, we validate the design concept of RMS and indicate the advantage of RMS over DML in numerous aspects. First, we show that under our conservative assumption about the reusability of RMS, it requires DML to have a rather high reusability factor (around 47% reusable) comparing with the current standard (only about 20%.) We also indi- cate that the faster the market condition changes, i.e. shorten product life-cycle, RMS becomes more favorable; however, too short of the product life-cycle would not always benefits the firm due to constantly investing in installation and ramp-up costs. Finally, we show that it requires DML to have higher reusability factor when products change more often to be comparable with RMS in economic sense. There are still severa 1 issues of economic benefits of RMS left unexplored. For instance, the effects of life-cycle cost and convertibility to the investment decision in DML and RMS was studied in (Birge et a . 1998). Additionally, scalability of RMS, i.e., the ability of RMS to response quickly to the changes of demand volume over time, also has been studied in the ERC/RMS for years We hope this study would provide executives of a production firm the justification of higher investment cost of RMS over DML and use a more relevant investment criterion to mi ke investment decision.
机译:RMS的概念设计旨在结合DML的高容量和FMS在大规模生产环境中瞬息万变的市场条件下的适应性的优势。在这项研究中,我们验证了RMS的设计概念,并在许多方面指出了RMS优于DML的优势。首先,我们表明,在关于RMS可重用性的保守假设下,与目前的标准(仅约20%)相比,它要求DML具有相当高的可重用性因子(可重用性约为47%)。市场条件变化更快,即缩短产品生命周期,RMS变得更有利;然而,由于不断投资安装和增加成本,太短的产品生命周期并不能总使公司受益。最后,我们证明,当产品更频繁地更改以在经济意义上与RMS相当时,它要求DML具有更高的可重用性因子。 RMS的经济利益仍然有1个尚待探讨。例如,在DML和RMS中研究了生命周期成本和可转换性对投资决策的影响(Birge et al。1998)。此外,RMS的可扩展性(即RMS对需求量随时间的变化快速响应的能力)也已在ERC / RMS中进行了多年研究。我们希望该研究将为生产公司的高管提供更高的理由。 RMS相对于DML的投资成本,并使用更相关的投资准则来进行投资决策。

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