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Increasing Resilience in Factories: The Example of Disturbance Management – A Research Approach

Increasing Resilience in Factories: The Example of Disturbance Management – A Research Approach

Disruptions in in-plant production systems, such as variant-rich series production, can lead to serious production downtimes. The longer the production stoppage lasts, the greater the damage to companies and supply chains. The capabilities to ensure emergency operation until full performance is restored after disruptions as well as the fast restart of production systems represent a crucial competitive factor for companies and also increase production agility. Therefore, it is of central importance to reduce the time between the occurrence of a disruption and the return to the initial level in order to minimize downtime costs. In the context of this paper the state of research on disturbance management and assistance systems for disturbance management ist stated and a research approach for investigating the potentials of assistance systems will be presented.

Industry 4.0 Science | 2023 | | DOI 10.30844/wgab_2023_9

Bionic Manufacturing

Bionic Manufacturing

Control of the factory with means form nature in the era of Industry 4.0

For more than 30 years a thrilling question is how the organization and disturbance management of natural ecological systems can be transferred to man-made systems. Beside approaches of sustainability and changeability especially self-organization approaches are tested in logistic chains and facturies. In this paper three approaches are presented, from which recommendations for the organisation of manufacturing processes can be derived. These thoughts can get new impulses for organization, control and disturbance management from elements of the fourth industrial revolution, especially cyber-physical systems.

Industrie Management | Volume 29 | 2013 | Edition 6 | Pages 12-16