| Theme | Production planning |
|---|---|
| Project title | Evaluation and application of work load flexibility for aligning capacity needs to capacity offers in production processes (Belastungsflexibilität) |
| Project duration | 01.01.2013 – 31.12.2014 |
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Production companies are facing an increasingly turbulent business environment, which demands a very high output and appointment flexibility. If decoupling of storage levels is not possible (e.g. in an orders manufacturing) or undesirable in points of logistics, this leads to strong work load variations. The work load characterizes the amount of time and quantity of work orders (e.g. in hours) for work systems in production, which results in capacity requirements. If the company is not able to adjust work load and available capacity, this leads to a reduction of logistical performance. Within the project influencing factors of the work load variation were identified as well as a calculation rule to quantify the work load flexibility and a method of production control to reduce the work load variation were developed.
Publications about the project
The ongoing change from make-to-stock to make-to-order production and the increasing interaction in value creation networks lead to growing challenges for companies regarding delivery date and delivery quantity flexibility. This leads to increased work load scatter in the production systems of companies. This paper presents a simulation-based approach on how the work load scatter can be reduced to a lower level and how this influences logistical characteristic lines.
load scattering, load variation, quantification, batch splitting
Production companies are faced with an increasingly turbulent business environment, which demands very high production volumes and delivery date flexibility. If a decoupling by storage stages is not possible or undesirable from a logistical point of view, load scattering effects the production processes. This expresses itself in the form of heavy load scattering. What kinds of quantification of the load scattering exist and how these have been further developed is subject of the following article.
load scattering, load variation, quantification, production planning and control
Companies are confronted with a business environment that is becoming more and more turbulent. As a result the load spreading increases. The causing factors and what actions a company can do in order to overcome those problems are unknown. This article deals with the identification of potential influence-parameters on load scattering and their mapping in a simulation-model in order to determine the effects of these parameters on load spreading.
work load scattering, influencing factors, simulation model
Economic environments that are becoming more and more turbulent demand a rising schedule and quantity flexibility from companies. To achieve simultaneously a high economic efficiency a high amount of load flexibility on the shop floor is required. By which factors the existing amount of load flexibility in a production is influenced and how it can be measured is not answered yet. To bridge this gap an actual research project aims towards developing a method to quantify load flexibility in a production.
work load flexibility, work load smoothing, work load scattering, production control method, product
