Predicting the potential of production structure changes using characteristic curves

Schuh, Guenther; Reuter, Christina; Brambring, Felix; Luckert, Melanie

doi:10.1007/s11740-016-0709-0

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“…This requires a lot of time and assumes that the planning team has a high level of planning skills [7]. Due to the lack of an objective evaluation approach, there is also the risk that layout variants are selected which do not represent an optimal alternative with regard to the overall objectives [8].…”

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Uncovering the human evaluation of changeability for automated factory layout planning: an expert survey

Burggräf

Dannapfel

Hahn

et al. 2021

Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

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On the way to automated layout planning numerous challenges must be faced. One of these challenges is the automated layout evaluation, which can be considered as the core of automated layout planning. The research field of factory planning differs from related research topics such as facility layout planning (FLP) from operations research (OR) by focusing for example on qualitative criteria in the evaluation. However, findings on how qualitative criteria can be interpreted in a quantifiable and measurable way are still rare. In this article, we address these questions with a focus on changeability, which can be regarded as the most important qualitative evaluation criterion in layout planning. For this purpose, a survey was conducted that aims to determine changeability from the understanding of industry experts and to define it consistently with the understanding from literature. Based on this understanding, performance metrics are derived to measure the layout changeability.

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confidence: 99%

Uncovering the human evaluation of changeability for automated factory layout planning: an expert survey

Burggräf

Dannapfel

Hahn

et al. 2021

Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

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Sensitivity analysis of specific metrics for automated evaluation of layout changeability

Burggräf

Dannapfel

Hahn

et al. 2022

Prod. Eng. Res. Devel.

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Manufacturing companies are facing a turbulent market environment. Challenges for these companies lie in balancing efficient, economical action with maintaining agility, responsiveness and competitiveness. Thus, it is becoming even more important that as much potential as possible is leveraged as early as the planning phase of a factory. Automated layout design with focus on changeability could help to increase the agility and responsiveness for the factories. Approaches for automated design and optimization of layout variants are already prevalent. Ultimately, the major challenge remains in the automation of the layout evaluation taking qualitative criteria in consideration. Burggräf et al. provide a first approach for the quantification of the qualitative layout evaluation criterion changeability through specific metrics. Within the scope of this work those metrics are examined with regard to their reliability. Anomalies or deviations in the evaluation results shall be identified and suggestions for improvement will be proposed based on the obtained insights.

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Predicting the potential of production structure changes using characteristic curves

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Uncovering the human evaluation of changeability for automated factory layout planning: an expert survey

Uncovering the human evaluation of changeability for automated factory layout planning: an expert survey

Sensitivity analysis of specific metrics for automated evaluation of layout changeability

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