Planungseffizienz und -effektivität durch Plattformbasierte Fabrikplanung
- Authors
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2024
- Source
- Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University
- Keywords
- Language
- German
- License
- Green
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Abstract
The increasing importance of manufacturing in the global economy underlines the relevance of factory planning. Considerable resources are employed in the planning and realisation of factories in order to meet individual customer requirements. Highly complex, recurring planning processes with many interfaces often lead, among other things, to time and cost targets being missed in practice. Against this background, the question arises whether a planning approach that is less focused on individual customer involvement might offer advantages in terms of time, costs and productivity without neglecting customer requirements. By understanding the factory as a product and factory planning as a product development process, this work aligns with proven approaches from classical product development.In order to address the challenges described, a planning procedure is designed that enables planning decoupled from individual customers. Based on product development the platform strategy is proposed to initiate a change of perspective in factory planning. The reference to individual customers is dissolved by the introduction of a planning case characterisation, with the aim of achieving the homogenisation of requirements. This allows for the compilation of type-specific platforms that can vary in scope and content depending on the situation. Standardised factory characteristics (e.g. hall height) as platform content thus form the basis for further planning activities. Using these platforms based on empirical knowledge, the commonalities of factories are increased, saving time and costs while simultaneously the long-term value can be preserved through targeted, economic oversizing. The methodological procedure is divided into five sub-models, ranging from capturing of requirements to the development of a product architecture to definition and delimitation of factory characteristics. An impact analysis links the requirements to the factory characteristics. Finally, a definition of appropriate, standardised characteristics is made for each factory characteristic, followed by normative statements about their validity depending on the present planning case characteristics.
