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Factory Product Lines: Tackling the Compatibility Problem

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Vincent Aravantinos,

Kenji Miyamoto,

Georgeta IgnaAuthors Info & Claims

VaMoS '16: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

Pages 57 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1145/2866614.2866623

Published: 27 January 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Variability poses enormous challenges to the manufacturing domain: the demand for highly customized and personalized goods requires bringing a large amount of flexibility to traditional mass production techniques. In particular, when a factory is asked to produce of a new variant of a good, production planning engineers need to manually examine that factory in question, in order to understand whether that new variant can indeed be produced. We call this the "compatibility between the variant and the factory" problem. In this paper, we present a product line-based modelling technique and a tool for assisting production planning engineers in the resolution of this problem.

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VaMoS '16: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

January 2016

116 pages

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DOI:10.1145/2866614

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TU Braunschweig, Germany
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University of Brasília, Brazil
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Eduardo Santana de Almeida
Federal University of Bahia and RiSE Labs, Brazil

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Evers KSeyler JAravantinos VLucio LMehdi A(2019)Roadmap to Skill Based Systems Engineering2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)10.1109/ETFA.2019.8869534(1093-1100)Online publication date: 10-Sep-2019
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