Allocation Flexibility - A New Flexibility Type as an Enabler for Autonomous Control in Production Logistics
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چکیده
A so far unused system inherent manufacturing flexibility potential, which is named allocation flexibility, is presented in order to achieve a better fulfilment of logistic targets using autonomous control. The discovery of this new type of manufacturing flexibility demanded for an assessment of already described types of manufacturing flexibility and for development of a new framework of manufacturing flexibility types. For this purpose the basic elements of a manufacturing system are examined to structure and classify the different types of manufacturing flexibility. The result is a criteria catalogue which enables to verify the suitability of a manufacturing system for the application of autonomous control methods.
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