Model Based Systems Engineering approach for the improvement of manufacturing system flexibility

To meet the increasingly personalized and unpredictable demand experienced by manufacturing industry, we propose a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach to support the development of more flexible manufacturing systems in an Industry 4.0 context. The final purpose of this research work is the design of a decision-making system, based on three solutions (scheduling optimization, Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems) coupled with real time data to satisfy an increasingly changing demand. These alternatives will depend on both the desired flexibility dimensions and the relevant associated criteria. This approach is then applied to a perfume production case study.