A graph rewriting system for process platform planning

Facilitating production process planning for product families, process platform planning (P3) has been well recognized as an effective means of achieving production efficiency. To support decision making in P3 automation, this study adopts graph rewriting systems to 1) organize large volumes of prod...

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Published in:Decision Support Systems Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 1174 - 1191
Main Authors: Zhang, Linda L., Jiao, Roger J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.01.2013
Elsevier
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Automation
Business administration
Computer aided design
Computer science; control theory; systems
Decision making
Decision support systems
Exact sciences and technology
Feasibility
Graph representations
Graph rewriting system
Graphs
Humanities and Social Sciences
Information systems. Data bases
Inventory control, production control. Distribution
Mathematical models
Memory organisation. Data processing
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Planning automation
Platforms
Process planning
Process platform planning
Product family
Programming languages
PROGRES
Software
Studies
Transformations
Product family
Graph rewriting system
PROGRES
Process platform planning
Planning automation
Product planning
Modeling
Metaanalysis
Behavioral analysis
Efficiency
Production planning
Graph transformation
Metamodel
Rewriting systems
Production process
Automation
Modular design
Decision support system
Process planning
Rewriting
Graph theory
Abstraction
Product data management PDM
Production management
Product structure
Reasoning
Feasibility
Data models
ISSN:0167-9236, 1873-5797
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Summary:Facilitating production process planning for product families, process platform planning (P3) has been well recognized as an effective means of achieving production efficiency. To support decision making in P3 automation, this study adopts graph rewriting systems to 1) organize large volumes of product and process data and 2) model production process planning reasoning. The model developed represents the structural and behavioral aspects of process platforms as family graphs and related graph transformations, respectively. In view of its modeling advantage, the system is formally defined using PROGRES. It includes meta, generic, and instance models at three different levels of abstraction. Meta models are defined for family graphs to generalize the patterns common to planning production processes for different product families; generic models are defined to describe entities pertaining to production processes of specific product families; instance models represent production processes producing product variants in a family. The graph rewriting system-based P3 model is applied to textile spindles' production process planning. The results obtained have demonstrated its potential and feasibility to support decision making in P3 automation. ► We highlight the importance of process platform planning for achieving product family production efficiency. ► Process platform planning is presented in detail in terms of both static structure and dynamic behavior. ► A graph rewriting system-based process platform planning model is developed. ► We report textile spindle production to demonstrate the process platform planning model developed.
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ISSN:0167-9236
1873-5797
DOI:10.1016/j.dss.2012.11.011