Collaboration Moves Productivity to the Next Level

Schuh, Günther; Potente, Till; Varandani, Rawina; Hausberg, Carlo; Fränken, Bastian

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2014.02.037

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“…Current German research effort is focused on the options and potentials offered by Industry 4.0 by way of improving collaboration between departments and companies in networks [33,43]. The networking of cyber-physical systems by way of Industry 4.0 will increase the interaction between decision makers and make a major contribution to increasing their reciprocal collaboration [33,44].…”

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“…The networking of cyber-physical systems by way of Industry 4.0 will increase the interaction between decision makers and make a major contribution to increasing their reciprocal collaboration [33,44]. This paper provides a major contribution towards achieving systematic and comprehensive modelling of interdepartmental and intercorporate cause-effect relationships.…”

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“…Against the background of a systematic development of collaboration between decision makers, it is necessary to shape the dimensions of cooperation, coordination and communication [32]. These three dimensions can be influenced by way of collaborative measures [33]. In the course of cooperation, key measures are boosting interdepartmental cooperation and transferring responsibilities to employees.…”

Section: Collaboration As a Measure To Dissolve Interdepartmental Conmentioning

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Cybernetic Approach for Interdepartmental Cause-effect Relationship Modelling

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In response to a growing complexity within the value creation in companies as well as in supply chain networks, corporate decision making tasks are primarily organized in a function-oriented way. This functional orientation is inevitably reflected in departmental objectives and corresponding objective systems which define the possible optimization strategies with respect to the decision making tasks of individual departments. Based on such department-specific objective systems, the development of conflicts of objectives between departments can be observed. This paper proposes a model-based approach to create systematization for describing interdepartmental conflicts of objectives. Based on actuating variables, control variables, result variables and objectives, the objective systems and measures of individual departments are interlinked and integrated in a cybernetic model. This cybernetic model allows the description of significant cause-effect relationships between the departments in order productions. Additionally, the impacts of the decisions of individual departments on the objective systems of other departments can be derived from the model. The model as developed is restricted to the objective system of order productions but can be transferred by way of pertinent adaptations and extensions of the specific objective system to other order fulfillment processes. The transparent presentation of interdepartmental cause-effect relationships makes it possible to increase collaboration between departments. Departments are empowered in the cybernetic model to align and optimize their actions to reflect overall corporate goals and the objective systems of other departments. Furthermore, in addition to the existing empirically motivated studies, the introduced model can expand the systematic development of collaboration in companies.

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“…SCHUH ET AL. provide a framework for analysis of the impact which technological advancements related to Industrie 4.0 have on collaboration productivity [12,13]. However, the focus in these research contributions is not on product development specifically.…”

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Examining Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Product Development Focusing on Dependencies

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Riesener²,

Mattern³

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Against the background of the dimensions for the enablers of Industrie 4.0 collaboration is seen as the interworking of human and human, machine and human and machine and production system (Schuh et al 2013a(Schuh et al , 2014c.…”

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Hypotheses for a Theory of Production in the Context of Industrie 4.0

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Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

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Significant increase in productivity of production systems has been an effect of all past industrial revolutions. In contrast to those industrial revolutions, which were driven by the production industry itself, Industrie 4.0 is pushed forward by an enormous change within the current society due to the invention and frequent usage of social networks in combination with smart devices. This new social behaviour and interaction now makes its presence felt in the industrial sector as companies use the interconnectivity in order to connect production systems and enhance collaboration. As employees bring their own smart devices to work the interconnectivity is brought into the companies as well and Industrie 4.0 is pushed into the companies rather than initiated by the companies themselves. On top of productivity improvement within production the fourth industrial revolution opens up new potentials in indirect departments such as engineering. This focus differentiates Industrie 4.0 from the first three industrial revolutions, which mainly focused on productivity increase by optimising the production process. Within the Cluster of Excellence "Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries" of the RWTH Aachen University four mechanisms were developed which describe Industrie 4.0. The mechanisms "revolutionary product lifecycles", "virtual engineering of complete value chains", "better performing than engineered" and "revolutionary short value chains" can be achieved within an Industrie 4.0-environment. This environment is based on the four enablers "IT-Globalisation", "single source of truth", "automation" and "cooperation" and enhances collaboration productivity. Therefore the present paper examines and introduces hypotheses for a production theory in the context of Industrie 4.0. For each mechanism two hypotheses are presented which explain how the respective target state can be achieved. The transmission of these mechanisms into producing companies leads to an Industrie 4.0 capable environment strengthening competitiveness due to

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Collaboration Moves Productivity to the Next Level

Cited by 76 publications

References 45 publications

Cybernetic Approach for Interdepartmental Cause-effect Relationship Modelling

Cybernetic Approach for Interdepartmental Cause-effect Relationship Modelling

Examining Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Product Development Focusing on Dependencies

Hypotheses for a Theory of Production in the Context of Industrie 4.0

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