Abstract
Within Philips the Centre for Manufacturing Technology (CFT) is positioned as a R&D organization, focused on the manufacturing function in the company. The Production Systems department focuses on the specification and design of new production systems and the improvement of existing operations.
The following trends strongly affect manufacturing:
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From manu-facturing to mento-facturing.
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Making use of the hands, but above all the brain power of the workers. This has large implications for the factory organization (example: mini-companies). Therefore it affects also the information flows on the shop floor. When taking into account the trend “from make to buy” it is clear that hierarchical architectures, like the CAM Reference Model (fig. 5), are not suitable anymore. It is replaced by models fitting better to applications available on the market (the Application Reference Model).
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From mass production to mass customization.
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Groups of customers desire personalized products at mass production prices. This implicates multiple manufacturing concepts in the same production organization The logistics aspects are becoming closely entangled with production aspects.
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Integration of production in the overall business
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Leading to concurrent engineering, extensive work flow control and closer relations between product design and production system design.
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van Bommel, P.J.M. (1997). Trends in Manufacturing Control. In: Goossenaerts, J., Kimura, F., Wortmann, H. (eds) Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing. DIISM 1996. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35063-9_4
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