The modular production system of Festo is used within a new competence-oriented didactic concept.
Consider an environmentally conscious (green) consumer who will buy one of two available, horizontally differentiated products: a modular product (M) manufactured by Firm M or a standard product (S) manufactured by Firm S. Firm M can take advantage of its modular production technology and product return policy.
A modular production plant consists of predefined apparatuses with a fixed design, called equipment modules.
That result is consistent with the modern theory of modular production (Baldwin, C.Y., Clark, K.B., 1997. Managing in an age of modularity. Harvard Business Review September–October. pp. 84 93; Mateos-Garcia, J., Steinmueller, W.E., 2003.
Service-oriented architectures with standards geared towards automation claim to provide easier development and integration of modular production systems.
In this article, a new approach for estimating fixed capital investment of modular production plants will be presented and applied using a generic example.
In this study, a network infrastructure is made for education and control of modular production system which is a mechatronics system.
Modular production systems with high flexibility, capable of interacting with products and humans, and vertically integrated with the business environment provide new possibilities for overcoming these challenges.
To address these challenges, we introduce in this contribution a system-level approach for flexible manufacturing comprised of reconfigurable modular production cells, which can be easily composed into production lines.
In one of the first contributions to the literature on modular production, Starr [ 28] formulates the basic idea behind modularity as "... design, develop, and produce parts which can be combined in the maximum number of ways".
