A Method for Tooling Configuration in Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Abstract Tooling configuration deeply affects the performance of Integrated Manufacturing Systems both in terms of flexibility and productivity. The literature on tooling configuration is extremely scarce and due to the lack of formal methods oversizing is a common practice which leads to high investments in tools. The paper presents a method for tooling configuration that is aimed at tool investment minimization under the constraint of a given system productivity. The method is applicable to real case situation involving hundreds of different tool types. The paper reports on the performance of the method under a set of cases based on a real system.

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