Coordination of Complex Tasks of Engineering Product and Manufacturing Process Optimization

The objective of the study was to investigate how to optimize the family of products and their manufacturing processes, in particular, how to integrate computer-based product family planning, technology process planning and manufacturing resource planning activities. The main problem is to identify how to link different engineering decisions and to allow the individual design tasks to run separately in a concurrent manner. Models of the proposed subtasks are integrated so that they would support optimizing the life cycle of the product. For each considered subproblem, a multi-criteria optimization task is formulated together with the hierarchical coordination of the strategy.