• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.64-68
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• 2004

Design of manufacturing system is a very complicated and tricky process. Since no efficient method has been known, yet it has been mainly done based on experience and heuristics. Even mostly used simulation approaches can only evaluate the performance of an already configured system, but cannot provide a help to configure or reconfigure a manufacturing system. An efficient way to (re-)configure manufacturing systems might be to use building blocks of a manufacturing system in the similar manner the recent products are configured based on modular principle. In this paper, the concept of a building block and its representation method are described. An example of assembly system configuration is also given.