Holistic approach for jointly designing dematerialized machine tools and production systems enabling flexibility-oriented business models

Giacomo Copani, Marco Leonesio, Lorenzo Molinari-Tosatti, Stefania Pellegrinelli, Marcello Urgo, Anna Valente, Juanjo Zulaika

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Abstract

Machine tools and production systems are traditionally designed in two separate stages, thus severely penalize the possibility to match customer production requirements. This work introduces the concept of dematerialization for machine tools and systems whose design principles answer to energy savings and cutting edge performance requirements across their lifecycles. The proposed approach consists of four main steps: new business total-life cycle services, design of dematerialized machine tools, process planning and configuration of production system solutions. The benefits coming from the adoption of machine and system dematerialization strategy have been addressed with reference to an industrial case study.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLeveraging Technology for a Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering
EditorsDavid A. Dornfeld, Barbara S. Linke
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages209-214
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9783642290688
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event19th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2012 - Berkeley, United States
Duration: 23 May 201225 May 2012

Publication series

NameLeveraging Technology for a Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

Conference

Conference19th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBerkeley
Period23/05/1225/05/12

Keywords

  • Dematerialization
  • Energy conscious design
  • Machine and system joint design
  • Machine and system lifecycles

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