Generating NC program based on template for mass customization product

Purpose – In the case of mass customization, product variety leads to exponentially increased variation in the production system. Providing flexible manufacturing solution for customized product rapidly is the key measure to achieve the goal of cost and delivery time. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues.Design/methodology/approach – Following introduction, the paper describes flexible manufacturing and numerical control (NC) machining techniques in mass customization. The kernel idea is that NC program for mass customization product should be generated from parametric manufacturing information template, so as to achieve NC program variant design in accord with product variant design. The elements of NC programming system discussed in this paper address the definition of machining feature, the development of NC subprogram, template construct, and the architecture of NC programming system for mass customization product.Findings – Machining feature, NC subprogram, and template are made to he...

[1]  Ashjørn Rolstadås ESPRIT Basic Research Action No. 3143—FOF production theory , 1991 .

[2]  Yiming Rong,et al.  Computer aided manufacturing planning for mass customization: part 2, automated setup planning , 2007 .

[3]  Yiming Rong,et al.  Computer-aided manufacturing planning for mass customization: part 1, framework , 2007 .

[4]  Hoda A. ElMaraghy,et al.  Flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing systems paradigms , 2005 .

[5]  Lianfeng Zhang,et al.  Process Variety Modeling for Process Configuration in Mass Customization: An Approach Based on Object-Oriented Petri Nets with Changeable Structures , 2004 .

[6]  Deyi Xue,et al.  A framework for generating product production information for mass customization , 2008 .

[7]  Roger Jianxin Jiao,et al.  Process Platform Planning for Variety Coordination From Design to Production in Mass Customization Manufacturing , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

[8]  Andrea Matta,et al.  A Framework for Long Term Capacity Decisions in AMSs , 2005 .

[9]  Frank T. Piller,et al.  Observations on the present and future of mass customization , 2007 .

[10]  George Q. Huang,et al.  Towards integrated optimal configuration of platform products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains , 2005 .

[11]  Niels Ole Bernsen,et al.  Basic Research Actions: A New Esprit Initiative , 1988 .

[12]  Mitchell M. Tseng,et al.  Design for mass customization , 1996 .

[13]  Cui Jian,et al.  Research on NC program desidn for Mass Customization , 2006 .

[14]  Yiming Rong,et al.  Computer aided manufacturing planning for mass customization: part 3, information modeling , 2007 .

[15]  Mitchell M. Tseng,et al.  A Collaborative Control System for Mass Customization Manufacturing , 1997 .

[16]  S. Kotha Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition , 1992 .

[17]  W. L. Berry,et al.  Manufacturing flexibility: methods for measuring the impact of product variety on performance in process industries , 1999 .