Autor: Stefan Ernst

Manufacturing companies are operating in a turbulent environment, which leads to a higher need for factory replanning. Typically, factory planning activities are carried out as projects. All projects are competing for limited resources. An appropriate coordination between the individual projects and coordination with the daily business increases efficiency and effectiveness. This paper presents multi-project management as a possible approach to the sharing of resources in factory planning.

The impact of industrial production on the climate is discussed in science, but also in politics. Adaptation to the impacts of climate change, such as better flood protection, is also examined. The aspects of manufacturing companies have been considered inadequately. Classical approaches of factory planning take climatic conditions only for location finding into account. Here the climate is considered to be static, when dynamic influence quantity. This has the consequence that the risk of climate change impacts in the planning of factories is not considered. In this paper, an approach to identify and highlight the growing risks is described.

Rising energy costs, the changing political context as well as growing customer requirements are increasing the pressure on manufacturing companies to run sustainable factories. A method to realize an energy efficient factory is the Energy Value Stream Mapping. This paper shows an approach which adds a simulative and participative dimension to the method by using the IFU planning table.