The insight that manufacturing companies nowadays have to compete in an increasingly dynamic and differentiated market environment with increased competition is not new. Nevertheless, it is still difficult for many companies, particularly in high wage countries, to cope with the dilemma of simultaneously increasing cost pressure and differentiation. The following paper introduces a model to address this challenge. The model attempts to give support in finding the right fit between the production system set up and the product portfolio offered to the market. The core element is a navigator for an integrative assessment and configuration of product production systems in the domains "Customer Value Management", "Product Architecture and Technology Design", "Integrated Product and Production Design" and "Production Process Design". An optimal fit of the product production system can add to solving the challenge of simultaneously realizing economies of scale and scope. Consequently, the integrated product and process development including the exploitation of the degrees of freedom in the solution space of product and process design must be enhanced. In order to consider manufacturability as a core product function, the dependencies of product and production design have to be systematically mapped. Furthermore, the challenge of complexity requires an adequate and feasible structuring of the problem to enable improvement. Fitting the solution space of product and process design allows for realizing cost savings in product and production design. To provide methodological support at this point, an assessment and configuration model was presented. The model comprises the four domains "Customer Value Management", "Product Architecture and Technology Design", "Production Process Design" and "Production Organisation". The operability and potential of the model have been verified by experimental application in the production-oriented development of the low-cost electric vehicle "Street Scoter". The consistently production-oriented design approach in the development of the "Street Scooter" prototype and its variants allows for significantly reducing the production cost while simultaneously offering a broad product variety. The presented model is subject to further development in recent projects at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL).


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    Title :

    Assessment and Configuration of a Product Production System


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    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    6 Seiten, Bilder, 20 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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