Enhancing Industrial Equipment Reengineering with Model-Based Systems Engineering

In the dynamic environment of industrial manufacturing, the continuous improvement of machinery is essential to maintain competitiveness and meet evolving quality standards. While concepts from Systems Engineering and Thinking could be quite helpful in that task, they are still barely used in the manufacturing domain. Therefore this presentation explores how the methodologies of Model-Based Systems Engineering and Systems Thinking can be levaraged for the reengineering of industrial manufacturing machinery.
On the example of a Quality Test Machine, first, an architecture model was created to get a comprehensive representation of the machine's current state in requirements, behaviour and structure. This model serves as the foundation for identifying improvement opportunities and defining the system's constraints and potential areas for optimization. Subsequently, a model with the proposed enhancements was developed. Based on this example, the talk will elaborate how Model-Based System Engineering and Systems Thinking can be applied in an industrial manufacturing context.
This approach can be generalized to reengineer a wide range of industrial equipment, from assembly lines to packaging systems, providing a structured and scalable approach that can be adapted to different types of machinery and production environments.