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In a world of rapid change, production companies are faced with major challenges. They have to deal quickly to an increase in competition and individual customer requests. New technologies and organizational structures like RFID or decentralized and real-time based production control can handle these challenges. The analysis of a production process and the selection of appropriate technical solutions often proves to be difficult and cost intensive. Previous simulation approaches are frequently combined with high effort in order to state credible propositions regarding suitability and economic efficiency. This paper presents a new opportunity towards overcoming these disadvantages. The approaches of computer-based simulation and model factories are combined into a new simulation approach with reduced effort.For the purpose of documentation of simulated processes the Value Stream Design method is extended towards the requirements resulting from autonomous production control. For this purpose additional symbolism, data dictionaries and key figures are introduced. 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences978-0-7695-4525-7/12 $26.00

The LUPO project's objective is the rapid evaluation of autonomous technologies in production, assembling and logistics in order to make a solid statement about the best mix of centralized and decentralized control in enterprises. For this purpose a hybrid simulator is developed. The hybrid simulator consists of physical work-piece demonstrators and machine-center demonstrators which are equipped with various autonomous communication techniques. Processes can be quickly built, varied, simulated and analyzed by using a modern production management system. At the end of the project it should be possible to receive reliable results on the benefits of autonomous production objects within a week. Potsdam

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