Human–Robot Collaborative (HRC) workcells aim to elevate the conventional industrial lines, by enabling seamless interaction between operators and machines. Shifting away from standard (mainly static) workcells, with machines following strictly defined limits schedules, new era of manufacturing introduces versatile workspaces, shared resources. The non-deterministic workflow such workspaces rai...

Life expectancy and quality raise have increased the request of better and customized solutions for patients. On the other side, while the health care market is continuously raising, the manufacturing industry, specially the automotive one, is facing a strongly negative trend under production and sales point of view. In this panorama, the development of biomedical devices represents a big th ca...

The paper explores and presents results of an investigation handling design methodologies using the bio-space biological phenomena combined with technical space for development, application products, machine tools, processes manufacturing systems carried out by a multinational team including Fraunhofer CIRP fellows. main approach designing was bio-inspiration. However, links examples implementi...

This paper introduces a practice-oriented and field-tested approach to measure and evaluate volume and mix flexibility of a lean production system. After an introductory literature review revealing and classifying various types of flexibility as well as models to determine the flexibility of production systems, the most important flexibility types volume and mix flexibility are identified. Exis...

This paper explores the application of Computer Aided Synthesis (CAS) to support the implementation of Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE) and Just In Time Decision Making (JIT-DM), which are considered as two of the cornerstones of the Lean Design method. Computer Aided Synthesis refers to a next generation computational tools that automates the process of generating candidate solutions to...

Tolerance design plays a major role in the quality of the product life cycle. Its purpose not only can ensure the products quality. At the same time, it monitors the product manufacturing costs. The traditional the tolerance design devotes to the optimization target of minimizing the manufacturing cost. But due to the manufacturing process of a product, there is a nonlinear relation between tol...

Mass customisation is in contradiction with established manufacturing systems, which produce high quantities of identical parts. Even though products assembled according to individual customer demands are widely available in many areas, the shape of the individual parts of the assembled product is generally fixed. To enable mass customisation regarding the shape of these parts, new manufacturin...