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Over the last decades several technologies have been developed towards the distributed automation architecture for Smart Factories, however, these technologies have not been yet implemented in industry. Manufacturers are quite conservative in adopting new technologies because the vast majority of existing infrastructures already have constraints in place related to their investment capabilities and...
Standardization, modularization and platforms (S/M/P) are approaches used by industrial companies to cope with complexity of technical products and systems. Despite a long history in product business S/M/P are considered as a fairly recent idea in engineer-to-order (ETO) business. They are applied with varying degrees of success in this business due to a number of challenges. This contribution describes...
Engineer-to-order (ETO) companies supply complex, highly customized products in low volume. They face an increasing complexity of their business, driving the necessity to ensure a proper interaction of the modules in the overall technical system and/or its life cycle by system integration. Despite its importance and proven benefit, system integration is an often neglected topic in the ETO business...
Flexibility and adaptability are major challenges for modern production systems. To make them applicable integration approaches are required. Within this paper an attempt towards the detailed characterization of integration approaches and integration approach types is made based on a literature survey. It is intended to enable an informed decision for the selection of research directions towards modern...
Flexibility and adaptability are major challenges for modern production systems. To realize them integration approaches are required. Within this paper a literature survey on integration approaches and integration approach types is described based on an attempt towards a detailed characterization of both. It is intended to enable an informed decision for research and development directions towards...
Facing the current trends in the lifecycles of products and manufacturing systems flexibility and adaptability are of general interest. To make them applicable integration approaches are required. Within this paper an attempt towards the detailed characterization of integration approaches and integration approach types is made based on a literature survey. It is intended to enable an informed decision...
The Engineer-To-Order business, which encompasses companies producing a broad range of capital goods, is becoming increasingly complex. In order to improve their profitability, engineering organizations in this business use standardization programs. While decomposition aspects in such programs are already in an advanced state, the integration of components, modules or subsystems into a customer-specific...
The companies active in international project business are faced with the optimization task how the different phases in the technical value chain can most efficiently be shared between headquarter and local country organizations. Many regionalization cases the authors have examined have critical issues in domains such as internal setup, strategy, risk assessment, or know-how transfer. Therefore, in...
Regionalization of software and hardware engineering in international project business is a key driver for the success of multinational companies. These companies usually act as prime contractors and therefore have to execute large engineering projects across several countries. This requires a shift of the whole or at least a portion of their engineering value chain to a foreign country (regionalization)...
International project business is often characterized by the fact that the contracting company is working in many countries. The company's strategic intentions and the often-noticed customer requirement to increase local content are the basis for efficiently sharing different elements of the technical value chain between headquarters and organizations in the country where the plant or facility has...
Introduction: Performance measurement supports engineering organizations to effectively design, implement and control engineering improvement activities. Purpose: This contribution analyzes which performance measurement methods are used in industrial practice. The focus lies on methods used for the evaluation of investments (such as efficiency improvement programs) in engineering departments. Approach:...
Software and hardware engineering in international project business has been subject to regionalization efforts for several years. We describe how such a regionalization is basically organized and performed in a multi-national company, mainly active in project business in various technical domains such as electrical substations, trains or power plants. Main accent is put on experience gathered from...
Mechatronical engineering is a strong trend within engineering of manufacturing systems. To enable a most efficient and beneficiary application of mechatronical engineering within engineering organizations the mechatronical engineering has to be based on basic concepts realizing the mechatronical thinking and supporting the user. Even though such concepts have been identified they might be of different...
Engineering and installation processes are one cost driver within the life cycle of a technical system. Especially within international projects crossing country borders, the cost distribution and the cost allocation are challenges for the success of the technical system. The engineers usually responsible for the decisions where and by whom an engineering activity has to be executed within the engineering...
The multi-agent systems technology is a proper approach to implement distributed manufacturing systems exhibiting adaptation and flexibility. This paper proposes a multi-agent based solution for the adaptation of the functional test plan in a production line producing washing machines, aiming to increase the process productivity and product quality. The global adaptation mechanism is embedded on the...
Engineering processes of complex production systems have an increasing impact on the life cycle costs of the production systems. Thus, it is naturally of interest to optimize them with respect to correctness and efficiency. Therefore, methods for process modeling and problem identification are required, applicable also by engineers not familiar with process modeling but with their own engineering...
Mechatronic thinking in engineering is an upcoming trend in production system design and implementation. Several approaches and tools are considered and developed within the last years. Nevertheless, within practice the adoption of mechatronic engineering is not very fast. This is due to the required conviction of engineers about the benefits of mechatronic engineering. Within this paper methods of...
Within the last few years different process structures for the execution of engineering processes in the field of production systems have been developed and partially standardized. These processes have strong similarities and dependencies enabling the development of a generalized engineering process for production systems. In addition the different engineering processes can highlight the use of mechatronical...
Product quality is one key performance indicator for manufacturing systems with growing importance. Among others it depends strongly on manufacturing properties and parameters defined within the engineering process of the manufacturing system creating these products. Thus, manufacturing systems engineering quality directly influences product quality. To control the reachable product quality within...
Within the engineering of manufacturing systems the paradigm mechatronical units is of important interest. To deal properly with mechatronical units within manufacturing system engineering they have to be defined, described and used in an appropriate way establishing a mechatronical engineering process. This paper describes from good practice experience how mechatronical units can be modeled and used...
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