advanced Industrial Engineering

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

Permanently changing environment conditions, the constant market advancement and the accelerated technological progress will force enterprises to precisely plan and optimise their production in ever shorter cycles. Planning tasks in the field of the production will therefore become increasingly complex. The tools of the digital factory and aspects of the technology management will make Advanced Industrial Engineering a powerful support for planners and designers. This enables them to plan and execute change processes faster and more precise. The article gives an overview of future solutions advanced Industrial Engineering will provide for the planning and optimisation of factories for the year 2020.