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ISBN 978-952-5726-09-1 (Print)<br />
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Networking and Network Security (ISNNS ’10)<br />
Jinggangshan, P. R. China, 2-4, April. 2010, pp. 201-205<br />
Networked Manufacturing Resources<br />
Optimization Deployment for Complicated Parts<br />
Wenli Peng 1* , Zhongbao Qin 2 , and Wenni Zhang 3<br />
1 College of Electro-mechanics Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China<br />
Email: peng_wenli@163.com<br />
2 Xi’an Institute of high-technology, Xi’an, China<br />
Email: zhongb_qin@163.com<br />
3 College of Foreign Languages, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, China<br />
Email: zhangwenni.pc@163.com<br />
Abstract—Agile of physical manufacturing unit is the<br />
competitive advantage in the networked manufacturing<br />
environment. It is believed that the agile can be reached by<br />
optimization deployment of networked manufacturing<br />
resources. To solve this problem, logical manufacturing unit<br />
(LMU) and logical manufacturing process (LMP) are put<br />
forward and defined to decompose and model networked<br />
manufacturing task according to the process of complex<br />
part. When selecting manufacturing resources for these<br />
manufacturing tasks, many factors should be taken into<br />
account. However, manufacturing cost, time to market and<br />
manufacturing quality are the most important factors. In<br />
this paper, networked manufacturing resources pre-allocate<br />
is carried out to find candidate manufacturing resources<br />
based on abilities of manufacturing resources, such as part<br />
family, geometric feature, material type, rough type,<br />
dimension range, machining method, precision grade and<br />
production type. Then, taking transportation time and cost<br />
besides manufacturing time, cost and quality into<br />
consideration, the target and constraint of manufacturing<br />
resources optimization deployment are analyzed, and<br />
manufacturing resources optimization deployment problem<br />
is considered as a multi-objectives optimization problem.<br />
Index Terms—manufacturing resources optimization<br />
deployment, physical manufacturing unit, logical<br />
manufacturing unit, logical manufacturing process,<br />
executive manufacturing process<br />
I. INTRODUCTION<br />
With the development of network and information<br />
technologies, the manufacturing of complex products can<br />
be achieved based on agile manufacturing through<br />
collaborating of enterprises. In this paper, the model of<br />
networked manufacturing resources optimization<br />
deployment was built in considering the processing cost,<br />
time, manufacturing quality [1]. But in the networked<br />
manufacturing environment, the physical manufacturing<br />
units are geographically distributed, so transportation<br />
cost and time between different physical manufacturing<br />
units are significant enough not to be ignored, and should<br />
be taken into consideration[2]. Thus, the model of<br />
networked manufacturing resources optimization<br />
deployment was much more complicated [3]. This<br />
resembles the partner selection in virtual enterprise, but<br />
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there were many differences. In our views, before those<br />
factors were considered, manufacturing resources<br />
abilities such as part family, geometric feature, material<br />
type, rough type, dimension range, machining method,<br />
precision grade and production type, which can be<br />
realized by physical manufacturing units, should be<br />
taken into consideration. We call this process as the<br />
networked manufacturing resources pre-allocate[4].<br />
II. NETWORKED MANUFACTURING TASK<br />
DECOMPOSITION AND DESCRIPTION<br />
Definition 1: Physical manufacturing unit (PMU) is<br />
composed of all physical equipments located at the<br />
same place, including machining equipments, fixture<br />
accessories, and computers and so on. The basic<br />
information of PMU includes location information,<br />
workshop name, enterprise name, typical products,<br />
personnel information, contact method and other main<br />
information.<br />
A. Designing logical manufacturing unit<br />
Definition 2: Logical manufacturing unit (LMU)<br />
expresses the manufacturing sub-process, and is defined<br />
as the aggregation of work procedures. The<br />
information model of LMU is described by eight<br />
elements: LMU(Pf,F,Ma,R,D;Mach,Pre,Pro).<br />
Where: Pf expresses part family; F expresses<br />
geometric feature; Ma expresses material type;R<br />
expresses rough type; D expresses dimension range;<br />
Mach expresses machining method; Pre expresses<br />
precision grade; Pro expresses production type.<br />
From the definition of LMU and the characteristics of<br />
these eight elements, a LMU has the following<br />
characteristics: All elements inside a LMU have close<br />
relationship each other, but the relationship between<br />
every two LMU-s is loose; each work procedure is<br />
included in a LMU, but a LMU can include several work<br />
procedures [5].<br />
B. Designing logical manufacturing process<br />
Definition 3: Logical manufacturing process (LMP)<br />
is defined as the abstract description of the whole<br />
production procedure of a complex part. It is composed<br />
of a sequence of some LMU-s and the dynamic<br />
information of each LMU, namely the restrictions of<br />
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