Development of Graphical User Interface for Reconfiguration of Manufacturing Automation System

The main objective of this work is to create a new method in developing a highly flexible manufacturing framework which will be easily reconfigurable for upcoming production needs. In this paper, the initial development of Graphical User Interface (GUI) for compensating the current development of the reconfiguration framework of manufacturing automation system is described. A user friendly interface to the system engineer for ease of system reconfiguration has been developed. The GUI is divided into three main sections. The first contain the requirement, specifications and constraint component. The next section consists of the steps and options component while the final section shows the optimization stage of the works. The components are mainly extracted from the steps and work descriptions provided by the user requirements and specifications as well as some constraints. In order to simplify the configuration and reconfiguration works, these information are essentials. Later, the layout of this GUI will be integrated with the specific rules and algorithm which is concurrently being developed.