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What does the term Adaptive Manufacturing Mean?
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A Google search for 'adaptive manufacturing' turned up a goodly variety of articles, papers and other published works.
If you put into Google "Adaptive Manufacturing" there is numerous web-sites that cover this phrase (must use “ ” as shown.
Some include:
http://www.onstrategies.com/pdfs/AdaptiveManufacturing.pdf
http://www.sap.com/solutions/manufacturing/pdf/WP_Adaptive_Manufactuing_Lean_Six_Sigma.pdf
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Adaptive Manufacture: a new competitive strategy centered around virtual product coalitions that applies lean and flexible manufacturing principles to the realities of 21st century durable goods marketplace!
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Looks like it's this year's software vendors' catch phrase. Closely aligned to agile manufacturing and collaboration.
(Loads of stuff on Google!)
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The following link will be beneficial and contains a good paper on Adaptive Manufacturing.
http://www.onstrategies.com/pdfs/AdaptiveManufacturing.pdf
Adaptive Manufacturing covers a number of areas and basically involves the company and its sub groups (either insourced or outsourced) working together to improve their specific areas of expertise and networking with the other departments to assist and understand their operation so that all the elements of the company are pushing in the same direction.
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Adaptive Manufacturing Environment is comprised of a network of coalitions that each provide, in effect service utilities that manage specific parts of the manufacturing value chain. They all revolve around a brand manager, the entity that owns the brand and that acts as the central hub for all the coalitions.
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The term seems to have been coined by SAP as an extension of Lean (it has much in common with 'Flexible Response'). They held a conference by the same name in 2005.
SAP "Adaptive Manufacturing is The ability to profitably replenish the supply chain while dynamically responding to unpredictable change."
It seems to link to their purchase of Lighthammer and the drive to link MES to SCM systems.
Various other parties have leapt on the 'definitions' in use and bend it to there own products and services. For instance:-
Sun Microsystems "Adaptive Manufacturing, a new competitive strategy centered around virtual product coalitions that applies the lessons from lean and flexible manufacturing to the realities of the 21st century durable goods marketplace.
"Industry Week "Eastman Adaptive Manufacturing enables a "single version of the truth" across manufacturing and the enterprise to drive higher performance and a high ROI on their decision support applications".
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Found this on the net – guess that you may have already done the same.
Adaptive manufacturing is a strategy in which operations execution and ERP systems are integrated in real time so manufacturers can quickly respond to strategy and market changes. It is driven by operations execution systems that provide the native flexibility and integration needed to support constantly changing work requirements.
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It means using intelligent agents to reschedule according to changing demands.
If you want to read more:
Go to the Production Planning and Control Website: Click on:
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09537287.asp
At right, in "e-Journal", select "on-line contents"
In the Quick Search window, type "adaptive"
You will get details of the most relevant articles on this topic.
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My understanding is that there are a number of definitions of what it is.
The most useful I have found is that it is a sort of combination of Agile (which focuses on reacting quickly to changes in the customer market) with Flexible Manufacturing Systems (which are production facilities that can be quickly reconfigured).
Adaptive Manufacturing is about having the complete value chain in a flexible state to rapidly identify changes in the market and adapt production to meet the changes – including altering product options.
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Seems likely to be related to adaptive control which APICS defines as "1) The ability of a control system to change its own parameters in response to a measured change in operating conditions. 2) Machine control units in which feeds and / or speeds are not fixed. The control unit, working from feedback sensors, is able to optimise favourable situations by automatically increasing or decreasing the machining parameters. This process ensures optimum tool life or surface finish and / or machining costs or production rates."
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I have come across adaptive control in CNC machining and adaptive stock control
... but isn't all effective mfg adaptive to changing mkt and customer needs in both short and long term?
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What does the term Adaptive Manufacturing Mean?
29 Jun 2007, 18:02