- author = "Gang Hong",
- title = "Research on Product Design and Manufacture for One-of-a-Kind Production",
- school = "Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary",
- year = "2009",
- address = "Canada",
- month = "16 " # mar,
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
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URL = "
http://schulich.ucalgary.ca/mechanical/files/mechanical/Gang%20Hong-PhD%20Abstract.pdf",
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abstract = "To keep competitive advantages in today's global
marketplace, many companies, especially the small and
medium enterprises, have been embracing a production
strategy, named one-of-a-kind production (OKP), which
aims at satisfying individual customer requirements
while maintaining the efficiency and quality of mass
production. This thesis work contributes to a further
understanding of one-of-a-kind production by addressing
the following three objectives to improve the
productivity in OKP companies: (1) customer information
should be incorporated in the product modelling scheme;
(2) design variations and manufacturing variations
should be well integrated, and (3) the concurrent
optimal custom product design and manufacturing should
be quickly identified based on the individual customer
requirements and manufacturing constraints.
In this thesis work, a customer-driven product modeling scheme is introduced to incorporate customer information into OKP product family modeling. Through this modeling scheme, relations between customer categories and product categories are explored to facilitate the optimisation process to quickly identify the custom product. In order to provide products in a cost-effective way in addition to satisfying individual customer needs, a hybrid modelling scheme is introduced to model design variations and manufacturing variations in an integrated environment. Based on the hybrid modelling scheme, a new multi-level optimisation method is developed to identify the optimal custom product design and its optimal manufacturing process, where co-evolutionary programming is used for configuration design and numerical search is carried out for parameter design. Two prototype systems are developed to illustrate the effectiveness of the introduced methodologies.",
- notes = "Gang Tony Hong",
