phase-out management

Due to the increasing demand for individuality, producer of capital goods offer a great range of different products. This product portfolio needs to be adjusted due to many reasons. Modifications may just include the ramp-up. However, modifications can also affect the termination of a production which can just contain single parts up to an entire series. This article provides a deeper insight into the phase-out process of multi-variant products of capital goods producers.

In recent years dynamics in the automotive industry has increased rapidly. Beside a higher degree of customer orientation product life cycles become continuously shorter, whereby an over-all effect on Ramp-up and Phase-out Management can be stated. Because of an increasing amount of new model ranges Ramp-up Management has been well discussed during the last few years. In contrast, discussions about an efficient Phase-out Management are mostly still missing. This paper presents an approach focusing on the transparency of information considering the requirements of Production Phase-outs.