NDLI: Proposal of a downsized factory and an index to evaluate its system efficiency

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Author	Mishima, N. Kondoh, S. Masui, K.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: AMRI, AIST, Amari (Mishima, N.; Kondoh, S.; Masui, K.)
Abstract	Micro mechanical fabrication is one of the important and practical technologies in nowadays manufacturing. Since all the manufacturing technologies should be environmentally conscious, recently, one basic idea was to downsize manufacturing system for micro/meso mechanical fabrication to reduce environmental impact of manufacturing. AIST, Japan developed the first prototype of a desktop manufacturing system named "microfactory", as a countermeasure for the situation. It consisted of miniature machine tools and robot manipulators. The trial was successful, though, whether the system is really "eco-efficient", or not, has not been examined quantitatively. An appropriate index to evaluate manufacturing systems by considering environmental impacts, costs and system throughput, simultaneously, will help the concept to become more popular. In this report the authors propose a system efficiency index named "total performance indicator (TPI)". Using the microfactory as an example, the paper tries to show that the proposed efficiency index is useful in evaluating and designing configurations of manufacturing systems. Comparison with a conventional system indicates that microfactory-like systems are hopeful as environmentally conscious manufacturing systems for micro mechanical fabrication.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	1576368
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424417056
DOI	10.1109/ICIT.2008.4608540
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-04-21
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Manufacturing systems Indexes Production Assembly Throughput Manufacturing Fabrication Environmental impact Total performance indicator Microfactory Micro mechanical fabrication System configuration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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