Proposal of Fault Characterization in Automotive Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS)
Autor(es):
Padilha, André José de Queiroz; Silva, Gabriela Ventura; Silva, Guilherme Canuto da; Kaminski Paulo Carlos
Data:
2018
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Keywords:
automotive flexible manufacturing systems
DOI:
10.5151/simea2018-PAP44
Abstract:
Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) have a high degree of automation, complexity
and flexibility, making it possible to manufacture multiple models of products within the
same manufacturing cell with few layout changes. In this environment, intermittent
and/or random faults are caused by various agents. Consequences of such faults
could vary from short production downtime to irreversible loss of planned volumes.
Although there are several methods to identify modes of failures and the corresponding
criticality, no methods were found to characterize faults with respect to its nature. The
importance of such characterization range from manufacturing design to root cause
identification. This paper proposes a procedure to characterize faults in FMS. The
work is divided in an introduction, four sections and a conclusion. In section one the
methodology is presented. In section two the theoretical background is developed.
Section three presents results of a survey applied to collect data about the importance
and understanding of the topic. In section four the procedure is described. Finally, the
conclusions are presented as well as recommendations for future studies.