procedure model

Standardisation of industrial solutions is a crucial factor for the competitiveness of whole industry sectors. Especially young and immature industries, like the offshore wind energy sector, may benefit from standardised processes. Several research and development projects address information flow and the planning in this field. The standardisation of the projects results may improve the performance of the whole supply chain. However, the transfer of research and development results to standardisation processes is a challenging task. Thus, this paper introduces a procedure model for the identification and evaluation of research and development results for standardisation.

Logistics has seen the introduction of autonomous control strategies and their abilities - as far as performance and robustness are concerned - have been proven. This article presents a procedure model, which helps to guide the design process for autonomous control strategies in logistics.

Mastering dynamics and complexity of logistic systems will continue to gain in importance in the future. One possibility to cope with this challenge is the concept of autonomous logistic processes. This article sketches a framework for engineering autonomous production systems on the basis of systems engineering. The main focus is put on a procedure model guiding through the process of system specification.

Very often the redesign or optimisation of production systems, the shop floor or even entire plants is delegated to external specialists respectively consultancies or planning offices. Over many years and as well many projects they have gathered tremendous experiences in order to accomplish large-scale industrial projects. As a result of these experiences planning offices often develop their own special procedure models and tools to cope with the vast variety of different requirements of their customers and furthermore to create a distinctive profile or even some kind of a trade mark.

Innovative services increasingly represent a critical factor for industrial enterprises to differ from competitors. While the industrial engineering was optimized over decades, services generally are designed unsystematically. This results inefficient planning and failures in meeting the needs of the customer. The article gives an overview on basic forms of existing service engineering procedure models and describes a generic, ICT-supported framework for the service-specific design of development processes.