Abstract
Recent works have shown that well-known models used for the analysis of human behaviour, in economics and in production—distribution contain unsuspected regimes of deterministic chaos. This paper is intended to study and analyse such behaviour in manufacturing and assembly shops.
We have shown how deterministic chaos could be produced by human decision making: the equations built from decision rules generally applied in a complex manufacturing system, lead to chaotic behaviour in a realistic region of parameter space. Also, we have implemented a methodology with associated tools to verify the nature of a production system and to highlight the above assumptions. Such target systems concerned by a deterministic chaos cannot be controlled through conventional management systems.
Dynamic modelling analysis of different production systems including delays, multiple-feedback loops, environmental and intrinsic disturbances, enables the induction of the management rules to be implemented for improving the control of such complex and chaotic systems.
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Abbreviations
- AGV:
-
Automatic guided vehicle
- AI:
-
Artificial intelligence
- BAT:
-
Bond assembly and test
- BM:
-
Bill of material
- CRP:
-
Capacity requirement planning
- DM:
-
DeMand
- DSS:
-
Decision support system
- FCS:
-
Floor control system
- FFT:
-
Fast Fourrier transform
- FMS:
-
Flexible manufacturing systems
- GA:
-
Genetic algorithm
- KBS:
-
Knowledge-based system
- LMA:
-
Line manager advisor
- MAQ:
-
Maximum allowable quantity
- MCS:
-
Manufacturing control system
- MRP:
-
Material requirements planning
- NC:
-
Numerical control
- NO:
-
Numerical optimisation
- PLOOT:
-
Plant layout optimisation
- RESQ:
-
Research queuing package
- SMS:
-
Shop management system
- TAT:
-
Turn around time
- TCM:
-
Thermal control module
- WIP:
-
Work in process
- WMS:
-
Workstation management system
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Massotte, P. Behavioural analysis of a complex system. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 12, 66–76 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01178963
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