Generic Production System Model of Personalized Production

Abstract

Manufacturing companies are operating in a turbulent business ecosystem that calls for product variety, product mix flexibility, volume scalability and high efficiency. Personalized production arises as new production paradigm to replace mass personalization. The paper proposes a generic model for the design of production systems for the paradigm of personalized production. The model applies the system design methodology Axiomatic Design and uses the notation of Axiomatic Design Theory for Systems combined with the product precedence graph for product structure modeling. The model represents the static system structure, decomposed into its subsystems, and explains the dynamic behavior of the system during operation, depending on the product’s architecture. It is intended as a reference model for production system planning.