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Influence of industry 4.0 on manufacturing facility design process and outcomes of the facility layout
Lakshmi Narayan, P. (2022) Influence of industry 4.0 on manufacturing facility design process and outcomes of the facility layout.
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| Abstract: | Beginning in the 18th century, Industries have been revolutionizing from mechanical production to Intelligent production or also known as Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0. The objective of Industry 4.0 is to achieve a higher level of automation, operational effectiveness, and productivity. Industry 4.0 has main characteristics such as digitization, optimization, and personalization of production, automation and adaption, and human-machine interaction. These characteristics of Industry 4.0 are reflected through cyber world technologies such as the Internet, Cloud computation, Data Analytics, Digital twin, etc to the physical manufacturing world through Cyber-physical systems (CPS) [1]. As a result, these characteristics and technologies of Industry 4.0 turn from traditional factories to smart factories. A smart factory is changing the factory environment with manufacturing facilities or resources such as machines, robots, actuators, sensors, etc that are integrated and possess real-time intercommunication between each other [2]. Hence this research project focus on the influence of industry 4.0 on manufacturing facility design. As a result, a modified facility design process is proposed to achieve the outcomes of Industry 4.0 Facility Layout. This might help in distinguishing in the future to know whether to follow traditional facility design process or new facility design process to create a smart factory. To conduct the project research, analysis was made on the concept Industry 4.0 to gain deeper knowledge about the concept. To implement Industry 4.0 technologies, there were six design principles: interoperability, decentralization, virtualization, capacities in real-time, service orientation, and modularity & reconfigurability. So, the changes with manufacturing facility design are analysed under the influence of Industry 4.0 principles and technologies. After researching the concept of Industry 4.0, traditional facility design was analysed to know the methods and processes involved to design greenfield manufacturing facilities. Muther’s systematic layout planning was considered as a traditional facility layout design process to study the changes influenced by Industry 4.0 technologies and principles in the designing process of the facility layout. Later, analysis was made on the changes that occurred in the manufacturing facility design components by Industry 4.0 technologies and principles. So, those changes help to propose modified facility designing steps to create a smart factory. Concerning Muther’s systematic layout, modified Industry 4.0 facility designing steps were developed., those design steps depict that Industry 4.0 expects modular layout and material handling equipment with intelligent algorithms for adaptive scheduling and flexible moment. To evaluate the modified Industry 4.0 facility design steps, a case study on the virtual manufacturing company is conducted. In which, two facility layouts are created using traditional facility designing steps and Industry 4.0 facility design steps. As the evaluation process is carried out by comparing the outcomes of both facility designing steps. Outcomes of both facility layouts are compared with the factors such as layout, material handling equipment, production capacity, dynamic shop floor efficiency, autonomous level, and cost. The Facility designing steps of both the facility layouts are evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively. For quantitative analysis investment cost and maintenance cost of the facilities are compared and for qualitative analysis, layout and material handling system designing process is discussed by comparing both the facility designing steps. Outcomes of the facility layout also provide the key technologies required to create smart factories. Analysis of the case study concludes that Industry 4.0 facility layout is economical, dispenses faster response to the product change, and provides higher productive time than traditional facility layout. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | ET: Engineering Technology |
| Subject: | 52 mechanical engineering |
| Programme: | Mechanical Engineering MSc (60439) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89595 |
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