information transparency

The disposition and control of orders in the field of event logistics constitutes a complex and dynamic challenge. Changing venues, temporal restrictions as well as order changes and high customer demands require a flexible planning of the related logistic processes. Methods from the field of autonomous control offer a promising approach to cope with these problems. This contribution deals with the design of a special module for the information acquisition within the related logistic processes, as the provision of actual planning data is an indispensable prerequisite for the application of autonomous control.

Design, planning and control of complex and integrated solutions are some of the most important keys to the competitiveness and innovativeness of enterprises. Unfortunately a lack of connectivity often hampers the way to efficient value added in production and logistics networks, since not all of the information you need is available on time. Especially in the automotive industry in which each process is timed closely and production has to stop when a part is not delivered just in time, the interfaces between the different departments of a company or even between whole logistics networks play an important role. For this reason, the FIR at the RWTH Aachen researches intensively to solve these issues with innovative concepts.