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| Title: | System configuration spaces: From legacy
factories to factories of the Future | | | Authors: | R. Leite Patrao, R.R. Negenborn, A. Napoleone |
| | Conference: | 23rd IFAC World Congress (IFAC WC'26) | | Address: | Busan, Republic of Korea | | Date: | August 2026 |
| | Abstract: | Manufacturing systems face increasing challenges from uncertain regulatory and geopolitical landscapes, pressuring factories to continuously adapt operations and internal design to remain "future-proof" and satisfy demand. Workstation configuration can describe both design and operational aspects, indicating what can be produced and associated costs and time. In this paper, we present a system-wide configuration representation, formalised as a metric space. We propose a method to construct such a System Configuration Space (SCS) from data available to most legacy manufacturing systems. An illustrative example showcases how the SCS can aid decision-makers in better understanding a system’s configurations and how such information can be used to solve decision problems, such as capacity allocation and investment. |
| | Reference: | System configuration spaces: From legacy
factories to factories of the Future. R. Leite Patrao, R.R. Negenborn, A. Napoleone. Accepted for the 23rd IFAC World Congress (IFAC WC'26), Busan, Republic of Korea, August 2026. | | | Request: | A
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