The introduction of new variants and the difficulty of forecasting future market demand and developments aggravate the synchronisation of assembly lines. This ultimately leads to cycle time spreads and thus to efficiency ...

The increasing product variance due to the growing individualization of customer requirements leads to smaller batch sizes and higher process time spreads in mixed-model assembly. The resulting decline in efficiency pushes ...

Trends such as mass customization, changing customer preferences and resulting output fluctuations increasingly challenge the production industry. Mixed-model assembly lines are affected by the rising product variety, which ...

For some years now, the automotive industry has been challenged by growing market dynamics, shorter product lifecycles and customers' increasing demands for individualization. In order to cope with this development, the ...

Manufacturing companies are confronted with the challenge of adapting to ever-changing requirements of markets in order to remain competitive. Besides the rising number of product variants, increasingly frequent product ...