Decoupling of Product and Production Development in Flexible Production Environments

Challenges of the integrative product and production system development

“…Identified barrier Method Identified barrier (Albers et al, 2022) 2, 5, 9 (Olsson, 1985) 3-6 (Albers et al, 2019) 2, 6, 7, 9 (Schäfer et al, 2023) 2, 8, 9 2, 5-9 (Sinnwell, 2020) 2, 5, 8, 9 (Boothroyd et al, 2010) 3, 6, 9 (Stoffels et al, 2017) 2, 5, 7-9 (Brandis, 2014) 5-9 (Stoffels et al, 2021) 5, 6, 8, 9 (Ehrlenspiel andMeerkamm, 2017) 6, 8 (Stoffels and Vielhaber, 2015) 2, 3, 5, 7-9 (Francalanza et al, 2018) 3, 4, 7-9 (Stoffels and Vielhaber, 2016) 4-9 (Gausemeier et al, 2011) 2, 6-9 (Stoffels, 2017) 6, 8, 9 (Gausemeier et al, 2012) 2, 6-9 (Thompson et al, 2018) 2, 7-9 (Gräßler et al, 2017) 5, 9 (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V., Gräßler et al, 2021) 2, 3, 7, 9 (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V., Jacob et al, 2018) 9 (Vielhaber and Stoffels, 2014) 3-9 (Kampker et al, 2012) 4, 5, 8, 9…”

“…(Ehrlenspiel and Meerkamm, 2017;Steimer and Aurich, 2016;Schäfer et al, 2023) Instead, the sequential approach or partial parallelisation in the context of simultaneous engineering is predominant. (Gräßler et al, 2017;Graner, 2015) Thus, the development of products and production systems is performed independently by different specialist departments. Nevertheless, coordination between the disciplines is necessary because the product concept and the selected production processes influence each other.…”

“…Nevertheless, coordination between the disciplines is necessary because the product concept and the selected production processes influence each other. (Eversheim et al, 2005;Gräßler et al, 2017) The challenge is therefore to find out why the existing approaches are not being used in industrial practice. This helps to answer the question of how to organise collaboration between departments.…”

“…(Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V., 2004) However, no details for the cooperation between product and production system development are mentioned, which is why the version of VDI Guideline 2206 is described as insufficient in several publications. (Albers et al, 2019;Gräßler et al, 2017;Jürgenhake, 2017)…”

Managerial Paradox Toward Flexibility: Emergent Views Using Thematic Analysis of Literature

“…It covers the wide range of performance factors that include quality, scope, time, engineering techniques, cost impacting delivery strategy, project management process, team capability, customer involvement, and team environment (Chow and Cao 2008). The decoupling of production system environment with products characteristics leads to flexibility in entire systems (Gra ¨ßler et al 2017).…”