TY - GEN
T1 - Conceptualization of Cultural Diversity for Efficient and Flexible Manufacturing Systems of the Future
AU - Zia, Kashif
AU - Ferscha, Alois
AU - Trendafilov, Dari
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge support by FFG funded Pro2Future under contract No. 6112792.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Manufacturing systems of the future need to have flexible resources and flexible routing to produce extremely personalized products, even of lot size equal to one. In this paper we have proposed a framework, which is designed to achieve this goal. Towards this we have integrated an established cultural evolution model to achieve desirable flexibility of resources and acceptable routing time. Promising results are evidenced through a simple proof-of-concept agent-based simulation. The simulation results reveal that the products need to move less in more diversified cultural groups when looking for suitable resources. It was also observed that the more time we provide for cultural dissemination, the cultural groups become increasingly coherent due to homophily. For scenarios, which require diversification of resources, we need to find a balance between coherence and diversification. This paper provides first insights into these aspects for a production shop floor.
AB - Manufacturing systems of the future need to have flexible resources and flexible routing to produce extremely personalized products, even of lot size equal to one. In this paper we have proposed a framework, which is designed to achieve this goal. Towards this we have integrated an established cultural evolution model to achieve desirable flexibility of resources and acceptable routing time. Promising results are evidenced through a simple proof-of-concept agent-based simulation. The simulation results reveal that the products need to move less in more diversified cultural groups when looking for suitable resources. It was also observed that the more time we provide for cultural dissemination, the cultural groups become increasingly coherent due to homophily. For scenarios, which require diversification of resources, we need to find a balance between coherence and diversification. This paper provides first insights into these aspects for a production shop floor.
KW - cultural dissemination
KW - group coherence
KW - Industry 4.0
KW - personalized production
KW - resource flexibility
KW - routing flexibility
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112022396
T3 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
SP - 1290
EP - 1295
BT - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -