An Approach to Analyze the Performance of Advanced Manufacturing Environment

Abstract

The recent shift in manufacturing paradigm in terms of reconfigurable automation technologies invites the involvement of industrial mobile robots, highly automated production systems and digital information models to support manufacturing. Therefore, in the future, manufacturers need to complete automated production lines to compete in the global market. However, a current lack of performance assessment methods for the successful functioning of an advanced manufacturing line demands to describe a concept for the evaluation of such a manufacturing environment. This paper presents a concept to analyze the performance of advanced technologies integrated manufacturing line. Modeling and simulation of a case study are performed to validate and to attain the results of the proposed concept.