A formalized method for designing multiproduct manufacture

The widely spread multiproduct manufacture of component parts has led to a number of issues connected with designing this type of production sites. When designing a production site or workshop, an important task is to determine the type of production. If this problem is solved, this will make it possible to comprehensively assess the technical, organizational, and economic features of future production. Modern methods for determining the type of production are of little relevance for multiproduct manufacture, since the main criterion is the coefficient of operation consolidation. The existing methodology for determining the coefficient of operation consolidation requires the information that is not always available at the initial stage of project development. It is obvious that the development of a methodology that would make it possible to accurately determine the type of multiproduct manufacture is a relevant task. This article describes the proposed methodology for assessing the type of production using a representative part. The representative part is selected in such a way as to contain the maximum number of features of the parts that will be processed on the projected site. Selecting the representative part allows us to justifiably limit the task of designing production sites of multiproduct manufacture. The developed technological process for the representative part makes it is possible to determine the characteristics of the production program, in particular, the labor intensiveness of manufacturing parts. The formalized objective transformation of multiproduct manufacture programs of the projected sites in the program for representative part production which are equivalent to the given programs in labor intensiveness allows it to be automatized, which contributes to the improvement of design quality and reduces its terms.