Design of a production system: An application of integration product-process

Abstract

In a context of integrated mechanical design and manufacture, approaches and applications are well known at both academic and industrial level. Production constraints must be taken into account at the same time as economic, logistics or legislative constraints. Facts and constraints must therefore be structured, formalized and represented. In this article, we present a procedure for the design of a production system, based on part modelling and formalization of technological knowledge using production features. The constraints of antecedence or simultaneity are formalized using temporal logic. Systems architectures are deduced by assessing execution times and conditions of accessibility. Finally, multi-criteria analysis is used to calculate the cost and reactivity constraints of the final choice.