Production engineering for self-organizing complex systems

Schuh, Günther; Gottschalk, Sebastian

doi:10.1007/s11740-008-0120-6

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“…The 21st century will confront enterprises and manufacturing companies with completely novel generations of technologies, services, and products based on computer technologies (Schuh and Gottschalk 2008;Schuh et al 2009). In order to meet competition on global markets and to ensure long-term success, the companies need to adapt to shorter delivery times, increasing product variability and high market volatility, by which enterprises are able to sensitively and timely react to continuous and unexpected changes (Wiendahl et al 2007).…”

Section: Motives For Integrating Human Factors In Productionmentioning

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Human Factors in Production Systems

Brauner

Ziefle

2014

Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

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Information and communication technology (ICT) is getting smaller and faster at a dashing pace and is increasingly pervading production technology. This penetration of ICT within and across production technology enables companies to aggregate and utilize massive amounts of data of production processes, both horizontally (across different products) and vertically (from machine level, over the shop floor, to the supply chain level). Presumably, this yields in Smart Factories with adaptable manufacturing processes that adjust to different goals, such as performance, product quality, or resource efficiency. But the increasing amount of available data also raises considerable challenges: Strategic decisions still depend on humans in the loop who have to perceive and process increasingly complex multi dimensional data sets and to make decisions whose effects are increasingly difficult to forecast. This paper is concerned with the potential of the human factor. Along with three case studies, we demonstrate the potential of human factors in the development of applications for Smart Factories and enterprises in the era of Industry 4.0. The paper concludes with a set of guidelines and methods for the usercentred development of applications for Industry 4.0.

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Section: Motives For Integrating Human Factors In Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Factors in Production Systems

Brauner

Ziefle

2014

Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

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“…Fig. 6 Present knowledge about hybrid technologies or rules and the self-contained, dynamic adaption of the system to mutable goals [8,23,24]. Concurrently, the overall functionality of the system is ensured at any time.…”

Section: Relevant Scientific Tasksmentioning

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Technology roadmapping for the production in high-wage countries

Schuh

Aghassi

Orilski

et al. 2011

Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

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Manufacturing companies from high-wage countries must focus on future markets and products to remain competitive and to ensure long-term success. In a dynamic, global environment it is necessary to further improve the underlying production technologies and methodologies to achieve sustainable competitive advantages. Thus, a technology roadmap for advanced production technologies and approaches has been developed. The roadmap provides an overview of relevant technologies and their technological readiness. It points out challenges which manufacturing companies in high-wage countries have to face. Moreover, the applied roadmapping process is used to align the research activities within the Cluster of Excellence "Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries" to the relevant topics concerning the cluster's four main research areas, namely the individualized, virtual, hybrid and self-optimizing production. This paper describes the roadmapping process as well as i ts main results. Regarding each of the four research fields, a technology radar including exemplary technologies evaluated e.g., by their state of development is presented. Furthermore, relevant challenges, future trends and scientific tasks are discussed as main drivers influencing the cluster's research activities

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“…Advanced CAD tools have very reduced the product development time during the last decades but have not completely solved many issues related to the analysis and testing of manufacturing and assembly systems. More specific simulation tools today offer very high performances but are difficult to integrate together and are generally adopted to singularly simulate static configurations, missing the effective evaluation of the system's real behaviour, especially during reconfiguration within hybrid environments [23].…”

Section: Virtual Prototyping and Digital Manufacturing In H-rs Designmentioning

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Hybrid Reconfigurable System design and optimization through virtual prototyping and digital manufacturing tools

Andrisano

Leali

Pellicciari

et al. 2011

Int J Interact Des Manuf

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Engineering changeability-oriented and costdriven approaches are needed by enterprises to design and optimize manufacturing and assembly systems for the demanding production requirements of the present industrial scenario. The integrated design of Reconfigurable Systems addresses tailored flexibility through modularity, integrability of resources, product and process customization, and system convertibility and diagnosability. The cooperation of robot and humans in hybrid environments offers a good trade-off between changeability, high quality and low costs, by exploiting the human dexterity and cognitive proactivity, together with robotic accuracy and performances. Virtual prototyping methods and digital manufacturing solutions are now mature and effective enough to play a strategic role within the hybrid reconfigurable system (H-RS) design and optimization process. The present research work proposes an engineering method to design and optimize H-RSs, by using virtual prototyping and digital manufacturing as a strategic support for the analysis and synthesis of the technical solu-

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Production engineering for self-organizing complex systems

Cited by 22 publications

References 12 publications

Human Factors in Production Systems

Human Factors in Production Systems

Technology roadmapping for the production in high-wage countries

Hybrid Reconfigurable System design and optimization through virtual prototyping and digital manufacturing tools

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