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Potentials and Application of the Industrial Metaverse

Potentials and Application of the Industrial Metaverse

Convergence from simulation to reality
Oliver Petrovic, Yannick Dassen, Christian Brecher
This paper deals with the concept of the Industrial Metaverse and its potential impact on the manufacturing industry. First, the possibilities of the Industrial Metaverse are explained in general and then possible resulting functionalities for production technology along the life cycle are presented. For the two topics "Synthetic Data Generation" and "Virtual Qualification" the implications of the Industrial Metaverse are considered more concretely.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 5 | Pages 27-32 | DOI 10.30844/IM_23-5_27-32
Disruption Management in One-Off Production with Collaborative Digital Assistance Systems – Benefits of an Integrative Approach with a Generic Data Model

Disruption Management in One-Off Production with Collaborative Digital Assistance Systems – Benefits of an Integrative Approach with a Generic Data Model

Niklas Jahn, Tim Jansen ORCID Icon, Robert Rost
Disruptions inevitably occur in complex one-off projects causing effort and costs and delaying the progress. Nevertheless, disruption management is often inadequate in practice. Disruptions are only recorded locally and related information is documented in an unstructured manner. Many disruptions can only be solved by the interaction of several operational roles. However, disruption information is not easily available for all affected roles. By using digital assistance systems, disruptions can already be reduced due to an improved presentation of information. Nevertheless, unavoidable disruptions occur. There is potential for improvement in reducing the effort involved and mitigating the effects by reacting quickly. This paper shows how a generic data model can represent different disruptions and enables structured storage. Based on this, it is shown how access to disruption information can be improved by a digital assistance system. It enhances information quality by locating ...
Industry 4.0 Science | 2022 | | DOI 10.30844/WGAB_2022_9
Collaborative Robots: Hype or Technology of the Future? Findings from an Empirical Market Analysis

Collaborative Robots: Hype or Technology of the Future? Findings from an Empirical Market Analysis

Ergebnisse einer empirischen Marktanalyse
Tobias Kopp ORCID Icon, Isabel Hendig, Steffen Kinkel ORCID Icon
Collaborative robots (so-called cobots) enable human-robot collaboration without security fences and are regarded as a promising future technology for manufacturing companies. However, actual market penetration has fallen behind estimations in recent years. A lack of market transparency makes it difficult to identify current barriers, development trends and the potential of cobots in practice. Will this technology become a game-changer or turn out to be a mere hype topic without significant impact on production practice? In this article, we present findings from an empirical market analysis based on secondary data and qualitative interviews with German market experts from business and academia.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 3 | Pages 53-57
What Role Does Real Human-Robot-Collaboration Truly Play in Manufacturing Companies?

What Role Does Real Human-Robot-Collaboration Truly Play in Manufacturing Companies?

Welche Rolle spielt die Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration in der Praxis?
Tobias Kopp ORCID Icon, Arndt Schäfer, Steffen Kinkel ORCID Icon
Collaborative robots (so-called cobots) that enable secure hand-in-hand collaboration with construction workers without physical separation are regarded as a promising future technology for manufacturing companies. In practice, there are some cases in which people interact with cobots, but very few in which collaboration in a narrower sense takes place. What are the reasons for this lack of collaborative applications? What role does the cobots’ ability to enable collaboration play in practice? The study is based on qualitative evidence gathered in four German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 36 | 2020 | Edition 2 | Pages 19-23 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_20-2_S19-23
Collaborative Augmented Reality

Collaborative Augmented Reality

Discussions of Individual Customer Change Requests at a Great Distance
Henrik Schröder, Axel Friedewald, Lev Perschin, Hermann Lödding ORCID Icon
Due to the high competition on the world market, companies look for unique characteristics for their products. One opportunity is to establish a closer relationship to the customer by giving him the possibility to make last-minute change requests. This approach provides a possibility to discuss such a request at a great distance via Augmented Reality. The objective is to evaluate its feasibility and its costs on short notice and in cooperation with the customer.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 33 | 2017 | Edition 5 | Pages 49-52
New Ways for effective Supply Network Planning

New Ways for effective Supply Network Planning

Dynamische Verfügbarkeitsplanung mit Hilfe von Assistenzsystemen
Michael Toth, Axel Wagenitz
Globalization led to a continuous increase of international sourcing-strategies. The saving potentials that can be realized with these strategies are however bought with less flexibility and high order lead times. In order to support the expediter in planning and controlling global supply chains, a holistic approach has been developed in order to show disposable inventories in the supply network and to make future inventory level changes transparent for the expediter and the sales department. The basis for this solution is a variable assistant system framework which makes a dynamic stock range monitoring possible and therefore offers available-to-promise (ATP) functionalities for global supply relations.
Industrie Management | Volume 25 | 2009 | Edition 2 | Pages 55-58
Collaborate Successfully in Value Added Networks

Collaborate Successfully in Value Added Networks

Current Status and Trends, Opportunities and Threats
Matthias Schnetzler, Anna Nölle, Paul Schönsleben
In the course of decreasing value added, enterprises increasingly collaborate with customers and suppliers. They hope for lower costs, higher flexibility, improved quality, and time advantages. In a survey, the following questions were investigated: What importance has collaboration in value added networks? How important is the duration of collaboration? With what kind of partners and in which area is collaboration realized? What is the trend towards collaborations with Eastern European and Asian partners? What are the success factors and threats of collaborations? In order to collaborate successfully and to capitalize on opportunities, collaborations should be understood as a success factor, should have a long term perspective and be more intensive. Furthermore, global and local sourcing should be used and balanced; the capability to collaborate and trust building should be facilitated.
Industrie Management | Volume 23 | 2007 | Edition 2 | Pages 69-72
Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication in Corporate Portals

Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication in Corporate Portals

Christine Thews
Nowadays it is not unusual that the R & D departments of global players might be spread over several locations worldwide. Whenever fast decisions are to be made in many times such an organization can lead to delays. Web based corporate portals with synchronous and asynchronous features of communication have been approved as a practical solution. Within a service oriented architecture it not only illustrates comprehensibly overlapping business processes, it also offers staff members so-called „Collaboration Services“ which substantially simplify teamwork.
Industrie Management | Volume 22 | 2006 | Edition 5 | Pages 55-58
Complexity-Based Design of Collaborations

Complexity-Based Design of Collaborations

A Chance to Save Germany’s Industrial Locations
Günther Schuh ORCID Icon, Alexander Schauer, Sebastian Döring
The intensive international competition exerts strong cost pressure on Germany’s producing companies. Hence, managers more and more decide to relocate industrial locations to foreign countries in order to reduce their costs. However, not all possibilities to strengthen and to sustainably save Germany’s industrial locations have been tapped, yet. One step towards this that is supposed by companies to keep a high potential, is to collaborate. A new approach for the design of collaborations focussing complexity drivers shall raise the probability of success of collaborative goods and services.
Industrie Management | Volume 22 | 2006 | Edition 3 | Pages 72-74
New Market Opportunities Through Information-Based Logistics Services:

New Market Opportunities Through Information-Based Logistics Services:

E-Logistics as Innovation Driver
Frank Straube, Jan Frohn
The emergence of internet technologies has led to a fundamental transformation of value chains. For logistics service providers in particular new revenue sources and new roles in supply chains evolve. E-logistics helps to reduce the transaction costs in supply chains and hence increases the willingness for outsourcing. The ability to integrate seamlessly into customer processes, which can be referred to as collaboration capability, is a central competitive factor in the outsourcing industry. Also in this area e-logistics plays the role of an innovation driver. This article discusses the potentials and barriers of e-logistics initiatives and collaboration for logistics service providers and their customers and structures the design parameters of collaboration through a methodology.
Industrie Management | Volume 20 | 2004 | Edition 5 | Pages 39-42
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