Configurators

Systems thinking for the development of a flexible manufacturing system supported by methodologies of agile manufacturing, is the premise of this work. This system will be a basic platform for implementing a lean-flow manufacturing concept for a large variety of industries. Its ambition is to decrease the time of designing, scheduling and executing manufacturing in a lean-flow fashion for Mass Customization environment. In a chaotic demand, the industries know the exact details for production a very short time, after the customized order. The cost and the waste of organizing and managing the utilities and the resources are very high. In this paper, a comprehensive theory is developed, taken as a basis for the development of an IT platform. The theory concerned is the first step in order to decrease the cost of production. Such an IT-tool will be developed in the future to generate a Lean-flow Compatible product named Lean-Flow product generator.