Today’s industrial market is driven by a continuous demand of innovations. In order to improve product quality and to shorten manufacturing time, many companies are substituting old technologies and machines by new ones. However, an effective implementation of a new technology presumes the consideration of all logistic aspects related to it. Because each technology and each machine has different technical and logistic parameters, the implementation in an already existing process chain may require new methods for the logistic planning and control. In this paper the impact of a new technology on the logistic behaviour of the process chain is presented.
Industrie Management | Volume 20 | 2004 | Edition 6 | Pages 47-50
