Branche: Automotive

Lean Empowerment in the Digital Ecosystem

Lean Empowerment in the Digital Ecosystem

Translating cultural values into technical requirements
Frank Bertagnolli ORCID Icon, Sabrina Karch ORCID Icon, Arndt Lüder ORCID Icon
With the advent of digitalization, prevailing paradigms – such as product centricity, face-to-face collaboration and hierarchical structures – are giving way to the vision of data-driven business models, digital, collaborative ecosystems and an agile, holacratic way of working in flat hierarchies and self-managing teams. Collaboration is made possible through the use of software solutions. In addition to adapted management concepts, the digital space also requires a digital cultural understanding on part of the companies involved. Lean empowerment is a pioneering approach to collaboration based on cultural values. In expert workshops, ideas were developed to explore how these values can be lived in a digital culture and thus in terms of global digital collaboration. This article presents concrete solutions from which requirements for digital collaboration and for implementation within IT structures and software solutions in particular can be derived.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 40 | 2024 | Edition 2 | Pages 32-39 | DOI 10.30844/I4SE.24.2.32
Quantum Computing: A Brief History

Quantum Computing: A Brief History

With applications of quantum computing in automotive
David von Dollen, Daniel Weimer, Florian Neukart
In the last few years, quantum computing has achieved new successes, such as Google’s quantum supremacy experiment [1], and has been showing adoption by large industrial firms to tackle complex problems. But what has led up to these developments? What kinds of problems can we expect to be able to solve in the near term with quantum computing? What are the challenges that we encounter with this technology and deploying within industrial settings?
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 4 | Pages 34-36
Digitalization—Flexible in the Future

Digitalization—Flexible in the Future

With tailor-made end-to-end solutions automotive suppliers remain competitive
Jürgen Stark
In hardly any other sector have the production conditions changed so rapidly in recent years as they have in the automotive industry: An increasing variety of models, greater variety, greater segmentation and the increasingly international nature of automobile production require efficient supplier plants with greater production depth. Suppliers who want to compete therefore have to continuously and flexibly adapt their processes to the dynamics of the major manufacturers. At the forefront of this is the company IT: From this it is expected that more and more formerly analogous processes will be reproduced digitally. But digitization is only possible with great knowledge of the industry and individually tailored solutions.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 32 | 2016 | Edition 1 | Pages 52-54
Process Mining

Process Mining

Innovative process analysis technology for efficient business processes within automotive industry
Alexander Rinke
Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers need a high degree of process flexibility to respond quickly and efficiently to the market demand. Picture, however, production, purchasing and supply processes not interacting optimally, causing delays which inevitably pushes costs higher. The search for weak points in the supply chain is a major challenge, because common analysis tools cannot holistically capture the already complex processes. The new process mining technology, however, allows for the analysis and visualization of the entire process chain, a task which classic analysis tools fail to accomplish.
Industrie Management | Volume 31 | 2015 | Edition 6 | Pages 60-62
Trends and Needs for Action of Simulation in the Automotive Industry

Trends and Needs for Action of Simulation in the Automotive Industry

Lars Huber, Sigrid Wenzel ORCID Icon
Over the past years the use of simulation methods for designing production systems in the automotive industry has been enforced. To identify trends and needs for action, an online survey was sent to 181 simulation experts and users in the environment of the VDA workgroup Ablaufsimulation. This paper illustrates the results of the survey and points out development steps that are necessary for simulation in general and for the VDA Toolkit in particular.
Industrie Management | Volume 27 | 2011 | Edition 5 | Pages 27-30
Innovative Production

Innovative Production

Technologies in the Automotive Engine Production
Eckart Uhlmann ORCID Icon, Frédéric Runge
In the automotive industry increasing requirements for quality and an awareness of ever rising costs create significant demands for innovation in both developing and manufacturing. These requirements regarding the final product have to be met by using optimal materials during the development and by using appropriate tooling and machining technologies during the manufacturing process. In producing engines a wide spectrum of materials is used, which in turn are worked upon by a variety of manufacturing technologies. With respect to materials’ technology there is a trend towards developing application specific high performance materials with improved mechanical and/or thermal properties. Production technology then develops innovative and safe manufacturing processes and strategies to be able to apply the new materials.
Industrie Management | Volume 20 | 2004 | Edition 6 | Pages 31-35
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