• Assessing product portfolios from a production logistics perspective 

  Kämpfer, Tim; Lucht, Torben; Schäfers, Philipp; Nyhuis, Peter (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The increasing individualization and the growing customer demand for product variety leads to a constant shortening of product life cycles and to the necessity of periodically rationalizing product portfolios. For this ...
• Efficient Task Realizations in Networked Production Infrastructures 

  Grum, Marcus; Bender, Benedict; Gronau, Norbert; Alfa, Attahiru S. (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  As Industry 4.0 infrastructures are seen as highly evolutionary environment with volatile, and time-dependent workloads for analytical tasks, particularly the optimal dimensioning of IT hardware is a challenge for decision ...
• Bio-inspired Factories of the Future 

  Hellmich, Arvid; Sai, Brandon; Süße, Marian; Schreiber, Martin; Wiese, Torben; Ihlenfeldt, Steffen; Bauernhansl, Thomas; Putz, Matthias; Reinhart, Gunther (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The biological transformation of added value is seen as one of the key aspects in applied research. Bio- inspired methods and technologies will affect factories of the future and enable them to cope with changing boundary ...
• Development of a Model for describing, evaluating and designing Communication Concepts in Factories in the Context of Industry 4.0 

  Park, Yeong-Bae; Hingst, Lennart; Nyhuis, Peter; Kelber, Michael; Noennig, Jörg Rainer (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  Far-reaching changes in the technical and organisational structure have influenced the communication between the elements of a factory. In particular, Industry 4.0 as a contemporary trend in production technology and many ...
• Case study on technological applications for production planning and control in the context of industry 4.0 

  Schuh, Günther; Scholz, Patrick (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  In the course of the fourth industrial revolution, a rapid technological change proceeds in the manufacturing industry. Numerous new technologies enable multiple opportunities for industrial applications. In order to keep ...
• Development of a decision support app for short term production control to improve the adherence to delivery dates 

  Steinlein, Felix; Liu, Yuan; Stich, Volker (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  In manufacturing, adherence to delivery dates is one of the main logistic goals. The production control department has to cope with short-term deviations from the planned route sheets. Because of unforeseen disruptions, ...
• Evaluation of (De-)Centralized IT technologies in the fields of Cyber-Physical Production Systems 

  Große, Nick; Leisen, David; Gürpinar, Tan; Forsthövel, Robert Schulze; Henke, Michael; ten Hompel, Michael (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  In the course of the digital transformation, organizations are not only facing increasing volatility of the markets, but also increasing customer requirements and thus an increasing complexity in production and logistics ...
• Tactical Production Planning for Customer Individual Products in Changeable Production Networks 

  be Isa, Johannes; Zimmermann, Thomas; Scherwitz, Phiipp; Reinhart, Gunther (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The requirements of future production are characterized by increasing demand volatility as well as very short delivery times and high timeliness in the order-based production environment. Furthermore, the trend to customer ...
• Rapid and Long-term Measures for Prevention and Mitigation of Communication Barriers in Production Networks 

  Kelber, Michael; Noennig, Jörg Rainer; Nyhuis, Peter (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  Due to the constantly increasing complexity and dynamic of modern production networks within value chains, effective communication between the individual corporations is required. Communication barriers, can lead to delays ...
• A Framework for Online Detection and Reaction to Disturbances on the Shop Floor Using Process Mining and Machine Learning 

  Fischer, Markus; Pourbafrani, Mahsa; Kemmerling, Marco; Stich, Volker (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The shop floor is a dynamic environment, where deviations to the production plan frequently occur. While there are many tools to support production planning, production control is left unsupported in handling disruptions. ...
• Do-it-Together Concept for Production Ecosystems 

  Külschbach, Andreas; Leiting, Tobias; Stich, Volker (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The do-it-yourself mentality is particularly widespread in the furniture sector. Homemade furniture is very popular. The individualisation of furniture can be observed in internet forums, such as the online platform ...
• Blockchain-based Services in the Machinery and Plant Engineering Industry 

  Voswinckel, Themo; Schuh, Günther; Stich, Volker; Reschke, Jan (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  A large number of product-accompanying services in the machinery and plant engineering industry is based on the cross-company exchange of data and information. By providing services, additional sales potential on the ...
• Virtual Asset Representation for enabling Adaptive Assembly at the Example of Electric Vehicle Production 

  Burggräf, Peter; Dannapfel, Matthias; Adlon, Tobias; Hahn, Viviane; Riegauf, Aaron; Casla, Patricia; Marguglio, Angelo; Fernandez, Izaskun (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  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 ...
• Conceptual Approach of Robustness in Logistical Control 

  Bader, Alexander; Onken, Ann-Kathrin; Tracht, Kirsten (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The logistical control and order release of structurally dynamic systems represent a great challenge. In contrast to classical shop floor production, these systems can involve transitions between the two different ...
• Managing Disruptions in Production with Machine Learning 

  Samsonov, Vladimir; Enslin, Christmarie; Lütkehoff, Ben; Steinlein, Felix; Lütticke, Daniel; Stich, Volker (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  Changing customer demands lead to increasing product varieties and decreasing delivery times, which in turn pose great challenges for production companies. Combined with high market volatility, they lead to increasingly ...
• Method to Automatically Create an Initial Layout for a Production System 

  Bartelt, Matthias; Katzwinkel, Fabian; Kuhlenkötter, Bernd (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  A well-proven means to automate processes are industrial robots. Nevertheless, there are still many processes that are not automated, especially in small and medium sized companies. A main reason is a missing automatism ...
• A methodology for simulation production systems considering the degree of autonomy 

  Voit, Patrick; Beller, Marie; Reinhart, Gunther (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The increasing number of product varieties and declining product life cycles combined with individualised customer behaviour demand flexible and efficient production systems. A proper solution approach can be the use of ...
• Sheet-Metal Production Scheduling Using AlphaGo Zero 

  Rinciog, Alexandru; Mieth, Carina; Scheikl, Paul Maria; Meyer, Anney (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  This work investigates the applicability of a reinforcement learning (RL) approach, specifically AlphaGo Zero (AZ), for optimizing sheet-metal (SM) production schedules with respect to tardiness and material waste. SM ...
• An Upgradable Cyber-Physical System Enabling Smart Maintenance of UV Lamps in Industrial Applications 

  Böhm, Max; Lucke, Dominik; von Leipzig, Konrad (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  The supply of customer-specific products is leading to the increasing technical complexity of machines and plants in the manufacturing process. In order to ensure the availability of the machines and plants, maintenance ...
• Sizing electric storage system for atypical grid usage of industrial consumers 

  Zimmermann, Fabian; Wurster, Annika; Sauer, Alexander (Hannover : publish-Ing., 2020)

  There are many applications for electric storage systems (ESS) in manufacturing systems. While applications for maintaining production in case of a blackout are already established and economical, applications for optimizing ...

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