autonomous production control

Smart Factory

Smart Factory

Reducing lead time in toolmaking by 90%
Christian Ludwig, Hilmar Gensert, Thomas Farrenkopf, Thomas Panske
Smart Factory is the vision of a production environment in which manufacturing plants and logistics systems organize themselves as far as possible without human intervention. The article describes a project, at the start of which none of the participants created a relation to “Smart Factory” or “Industry 4.0”. Rather, the objective was to drastically reduce the current delivery time of 6-8 weeks. The result is a completely digitized business process from order creation, product development, design, manufacturing as well as processing for “batch size 1” with a reduction in lead time to less than 10 %.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 4 | Pages 29-33 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_21-4_S29-33
Interlinking Central Production Planning with Autonomous Production Control

Interlinking Central Production Planning with Autonomous Production Control

Beurteilung der logistischen Zielerreichung und Planeinhaltung beim Einsatz autonomer Steuerungsmethoden
Susanne Schukraft, Sebastian Grundstein ORCID Icon, Michael Freitag ORCID Icon, Bernd Scholz-Reiter ORCID Icon
The integration of autonomous control methods into central PPC-systems enables a high logistics target achievement despite occurring dynamic influences. Thereby, the integration requires coupling strategies to specify the harmonisation of autonomous control and central planning methods. The logistics target achievement and the adherence to given planning parameters depend on the specific strategy and the related level of autonomy. This paper introduces a target system which enables the evaluation of coupling strategies considering both logistics target achievement and the adherence to given planning para-meters. Thereby, producing companies are enabled to consider both aspects for the selection of suitable planning and control methods.
Industrie Management | Volume 31 | 2015 | Edition 2 | Pages 23-27