Using the Life-Cycle Paradigm to Support Factory Planning Approaches
Using the Life-Cycle Paradigm to Support Factory Planning Approaches
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2010
Authors
Américo Azevedo
Roberto Piedade Francisco
João Bastos
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This paper underlines the use of the life cycle paradigm in order to
enable the future factory planning approaches. In order to fulfill all challenges
related to design, management, evaluation and reconfiguration of new or
existing facilities, the development of a new, integrated and holistic factory
framework is required. In this context, a new requirements model is proposed in
the context of the innovative framework called Virtual Factory Framework.
Using this approach in factory planning it is expected to improve the ability to
generate better and more sustainable solutions over the entire factory life-cycle.