adaptive production

The industrial production hast o react on internal and external turbulences. The transformability of the production is especially important in the field of the multi-variant series production. Transformability in factories is reached by using a fast operating and reacting planning which includes classic methods of the structured factory planning as well as modern digital tools. Such a planning is reached on a shared database and transfers results of former planning’s as well as simulations. So the planning is done in shorter time and has a higher quality. To be able to realize the planning the real factory must be reconfigurable to get an adaptive production. The learning factory at the IFF was founded to provide the missing knowledge about the transformability of enterprise structures to industry

The sector of manufacturing and other involved sectors generates more than 50 % of the German GNP. For future success of this sector a production research, leaded to permanent top performance in production technology, is necessary. Adaptive manufacturing systems are needed for the fast changing future markets. Digital manufacturing is a knowledge based production, which accelerate the technical planning processes and allows collaborative work in networked production structures. The example of an innovation-cluster “digital production” shows the impact of future manufacturing systems realized through time and cost cutting in the developing processes of products and their production.