Manufacturing Systems Engineering I

Synthetic program:

Manufacturing Strategy and business models related to the coevolution of product, process and system. Manufacturing systems lifecycle. Strategic and technical aspects of flexibility and reconfigurability. Examples of flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing/de-manufacturing systems. New business models. Production systems architectures.

Strategic design of Manufacturing systems. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for decision support in multi-criteria and multi-objective contexts. Stochastic programming techniques for the design of evolving manufacturing systems considering uncertainty and multiple objectives; modelling of future scenarios.

Design of Manufacturing systems. Introduction to methods for performance evaluation of complex manufacturing systems. Optimization of the configuration of manufacturing systems based on the quantitative results of performance evaluation. Gradient-based methods for the optimization of manufacturing systems.