A calculation model of equipment similarity on manufacturing capability and its application

For equipment is the executive object of production task, to realize the great transformation from “scale production capability” to “innovation ability and rapid response ability”, it has been great demand for enterprises to improve equipment flexible manufacturing capability. by extracting its manufacturing feature, the information model on manufacturing feature is built. Based on the model, the fuzzy matrix is built. And then by using max-tree fuzzy clustering, a method is provided for estimating the similarity on manufacturing capability among equipments. Applicability and efficacy of the recommended methods above are verified by cases.