Product family formation based on optimal resource sequence for reconfigurable manufacturing system
提出一种基于最优资源序列的产品族形成方法，通过资源共享过程推导最优序列，并用产品-过程-资源相似系数进行层次聚类，显著提升可重构制造系统的设备综合效率。
Reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is designed to meet dynamic market demands by changing function and capacity which is built around a product family. Therefore, the foundation for the success of designing RMS lies in the precise product family formation. This paper proposes a novel product family formation method based on optimal resource sequence. Instead of clustering products only by process similarity, the method derives the optimal resource sequence from the process of sharing resources. Then Produce-Process-Resource similarity coefficient is used for hierarchical clustering. The results show that when designing RMS for the product families obtained by this method, the average Overall Equipment Effectiveness is significantly improved.