Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : March 12, 2019
Andon is a lean manufacturing tool deployed as part of visual management for propelling up communication in the industry. These days, fostering an industry 4.0 environment has become more and more intricate and taxing, especially where systems that engage digital manufacturing are required to merge production environment with information and communication technologies. Furthermore, when production processes lack an appropriate communication system, the augmented operator is not in a position to decrease the time between the occurrence of failure and its notification. Thus, communication systems should be upgraded wherever the components in industry 4.0 are connected for establishing a cyber-physical system (CPS). The objective of this research is to formulate the Andon support system (ASS) and support for CPS in a lean production setting and propel communication between members of the production team. The key route of information flow within the ASS is shown in detail. For demonstrating the ASS’ applicability, it has been executed in the production process. The outcomes show that the ASS can be effortlessly espoused in digital factories for propelling the response time on the basis of real-time operational information. Interconnections between information like data analytics from various machines blended with cloud and mobile computing and Internet of things (IOT) has a significant effect on decision making as well as production communication.
