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Abstract
Digital factory is a new technology to construct a
virtual plant environment to implement integration
between process planning and manufacturing execution.
Object-Oriented technology is introduced to simulate
complicated discrete-events system with constructing four
basic objects including Product, Process, Planning and
Resource in digital factory environment. Especially
manufacturing resource library (MRL) based on visual
display and single data source technology is built to
contain all resources to support manufacturing process.
The manufacturing resources can be imported and
configured to construct a virtual digital factory. By means
of digital factory technology, product design,
manufacturing process, production planning can be
simulated, analyzed and optimized in digital factory
through data integration with other information systems.
Therefore the uncertainty between design-planning and
product manufacturing is reduced, and success rate and
reliability of manufacturing system can be improved.
Altogether digital factory technology is a new production
organizational mode which runs through the whole
product lifecycle.
1. Introduction
With development of digital engineering and network
technology, many enterprises introduce information
systems such as CAM, CAPP, PDM, MES and ERP.
Consequently the capacity of developing and producing
increases greatly. Though a large part of these systems is
already supported by digital tools, these various phases
are not integrated and thus are generally carried out in
isolation [1]. Since lack of communications between
planning phase and producing phase, arisen problems are
merely solved in their respective field. Therefore digital
factory technology is introduced to act as a bridge
between them. Digital factory provide a translating
process from the product design and planning to the
manufacturing execution. Nowadays product is put into
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DOI 10.1109/PACIIA.2008.159
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Manufacturing
Resource
Library
Attribute Table
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Manufacturing
Resource Entity
Attribute Association
Gross power
Manufacturing
Size
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Label
State
Process
Fixture
General
attributes
Maintenance
Manufacturing
Weight
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Date
Spare interfaces
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6. Example
Example is a production process of compressor
impellers. Production running process is simulated
according to its process route using Plant Simulation of
Tecnomatix. Simulation model is shown Figure 8.
Manufacturing equipments and human are expressed with
SingleProc. Production running process is described with
developed control strategy, which is shown as Method in
Figure 8. During simulation running, utilization ratio of
some equipment could show in Figure 9. By means of
utilization ratio, we can balance equipment manufacturing
capacity. Moreover we can optimize production sequence
using genetic algorithm inter embed in software.
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7. Conclusion
We carry through this research based on some actual
problems in manufacturing process. Manufacturing
resource library is a basis of digital factory. Digital plant
through configuration can provide a virtual environment
to adjust and design plant layout. Production running
simulation can analyze and optimize manufacturing
process. A digital validation platform can improve
reliability of production process and plan. In summary
digital factory technology can promote productivity of a
manufacturing enterprise greatly, with more and more
deeply applying in actual production. Construction of
process plan platform and integration with enterprise
information systems are important research directions.
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