ICD A-1: Flexible Configuration Logic for Integrative Production

With regard to the objectives of ICD A, the Research Area A.1 focuses on the development of a flexible configuration logic and classification systems for production systems which will allow the economically optimal alignment of production systems to external requirements.

The question of whether the economically optimal operating point of production systems (lot size) can be widened and turned into an optimal product variants operating range to produce individualised products at mass production costs will be answered. The Research Area A.1 contributes to the resolution of the dichotomy between scale and scope by enabling production systems to cope with higher product diversity and dynamics by realising one-piece-flow. In order to ensure that the classification system and configuration logic will widen the margins limiting the most economic operating point of a production system, flexible production technologies are required (Research Area A.2). The configuration logic also serves as a substantial input for the Research Area C.1 and avails itself of the technology capability profiles, being developed in that area. ICD B provides required comprehensive modelling and simulation approaches for the cross-level investigation and evaluation of production chains from materials to the finished product.




Coordinator
Dipl.-Wirt. Ing. Michael Schiffer
Laboratorium für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebslehre (WZL)
Lehrstuhl für Produktionssystematik (WZL-PS)
Steinbachstraße 19, D-52074 Aachen
Phone: +49 (0)241 80-27565 Fax: +49 (0)241 80-627565
E-Mail: M.Schiffer@wzl.rwth-aachen.de

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