Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 14, 2021 - November 18, 2021
Digitalization of manufacturing systems and their components has been studied for the improvement of quality, productivity, and inter-operability in manufacturing processes. In comparison, less attention has been paid to digitalization of physical actions and mental decisions of operators, engineers, and managers engaged in engineering processes. In this report, the authors analyze information flows occurred across a variety of engineering processes related to operations of machine tools in a smart manufacturing testbed by developing process (activity)-centric model following IDEF0. The model is useful to describe the overview of information flow and mechanisms (such as machine tools, humans, and engineering software tools) necessary for specific activities. The report discusses some limitations of IDEF0-based method regarding interactions among these mechanisms, and dependency of activities on these mechanisms used.
