RODIC : Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems context
- Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) are currently considered as one of the most promising ways to make companies more adaptable to strong uncertainties
- manufacturing systems must be designed in a modular form
- a configuration therefore corresponds to an assembly of these modules
- whether they are software or hardware
- Reconfiguration phases :
- (i) detection of the need for reconfiguration,
- (ii) design of alternative configurations,
- (iii) choice of the configuration to be applied,
- (iv) production stop,
- (v) reconfiguration,
- (vi) production restart.
RODIC considers (iii) choice of the configuration to be applied
- RODIC project aims at improving this process
- by proposing a tool
- allowing an operator in charge of the reconfiguration
- to consider more simply and quickly the configurations (s)he wants to test
RODIC : multi-disciplinary approach
- cognitive psychology for the cognitive analysis of the operator’s activity and the definition of the interaction to be set up with the tool,
- industrial engineering for the contextualization of the work, the design of the configurations and the definition of the performance indicators with respect to the enterprise architecture, and
- software engineering for the phase of
- verification,
- generation and
- evaluation of the proposed configurations.