AN INTELLIGENT DESIGN ENVIRONMENT FOR CHANGEABILITY MANAGEMENT - APPLICATION TO MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Marco Cantamessa, Gaetano Cascini, Dorian Marjanovic, Francesca Montagna
Author: Benkamoun, Nadège; Kouiss, Khalid; Huyet, Anne-Lise
Series: ICED
Institution: Université Blaise Pascal, France
Section: Design Organisation and Management
Page(s): 209-218
ISBN: 978-1-904670-66-7
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
Design for system changeability and reusability has been sought by engineers from several disciplines. It has lead to the emergence of numerous strategies and paradigms. Especially in conceptual design phase, when knowledge about requirements, design problem and system specifications is incomplete, the future for effective changeability is already at stake. This work presents knowledge related to changeability strategies as well as enablers, namely modularity, interfacability, changeability and reusability ontologies. It is illustrated by examples of manufacturing system design. The established formalism leads to a formal organization of the required functionalities for changeability management; the paper presents an intelligent design environment for changeability management. Its collaborative architecture is based on two concurrent and continuous processes: designing changeability and leveraging on it during the whole system (re)design lifecycle. Dedicated agents cooperate together, so they offer an intelligent and distributed design environment. As a result, designers are assisted to adopt a systemic design approach to analyse, design, evaluate and maintain changeability.
Keywords: Systems Engineering (SE), Design Management, Design Engineering, Collaborative Design