Autor: Volker Liestmann

Due to shortening product life cycles and to the continuous enlargement of product ranges the ramp-up of production systems has become a significant criterion for innovation dynamics of producing companies. Besides the in-creasing technical complexity, a growing number of different parties are involved with different targets and interests. The result is a rising number of possible disturbances for the ramp-up process. In order to better control and shorten ramp-up projects, methods and tools have to be developed to manage the project along the complete value chain. The article gives an outlook on the ramp-up of the future by describing an approach that is the basis for a research project supported by the German ministry of research and education.

The level of vertical integration or disintegration of technical services strongly depends on the design of interfaces between the parties involved. Therefore, the organizational structure has to be closely coordinated with the functional service structure. In this article a methodology is described for bundling single services into a modular structure to avoid efficiency losses at the interfaces.