Integrating sustainability within the factory planning process

Die Anforderungen an den Planungsprozess, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Planungsqualität, nehmen bei steigendem Kostendruck immer mehr zu. Gleichzeitig verlaufen der Planungs- sowie der begleitende Kommunikationsprozess zwischen den unterschiedlichen beteiligten Gewerken zunehmend digital. Der Planungsansatz des Building Information Modeling (BIM) verfolgt eben diese Ziele, im Wesentlichen aber bei der Planung und dem Betrieb von Gebäuden. Im Beitrag wird untersucht, wie sich der BIM-Ansatz auf die Fabrikplanung übertragen lässt.   The requirements of the planning process, in particular with regard to the planning quality, rise more and more with increasing cost pressure. At the same time, the planning process and the accompanying communication process between the different work areas involved are increasingly digital. The planning approach of Building Information Modeling (BIM) pursues precisely these goals, but essentially in the planning and operation of buildings. The article examines how the BIM approach can be transferred to factory planning.

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Enforcing employees participation in the factory planning process

2011 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) ◽

10.1109/isam.2011.5942337 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Uwe Dombrowski ◽

Christoph Riechel ◽

Sven Schulze

Keyword(s):

Planning Process ◽

Factory Planning

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flapAssist: How the integration of VR and visualization tools fosters the factory planning process

2015 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) ◽

10.1109/vr.2015.7223355 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Sascha Gebhardt ◽

Sebastian Pick ◽

Hanno Voet ◽

Julian Utsch ◽

Toufik al Khawli ◽

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Keyword(s):

Planning Process ◽

Factory Planning ◽

Visualization Tools

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The Role of Participation in the Factory Planning Process

2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) ◽

10.1109/ieem.2018.8607574 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

U. Dombrowski ◽

A. Karl ◽

C. Imdahl

Keyword(s):

Planning Process ◽

Factory Planning

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Fabrikplanung für die additive Fertigung*/Factory planning for additive manufacturing

wt Werkstattstechnik online ◽

10.37544/1436-4980-2019-04-78 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 109 (04) ◽

pp. 280-285

Author(s):

A. Jacob ◽

M. Hillermeier ◽

G. Lanza

Keyword(s):

Additive Manufacturing ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Planning Process ◽

Industrie 4.0 ◽

Additive Fertigung ◽

Factory Planning ◽

The Future

Additive Fertigung verändert die Produktion der Zukunft und hat durch seine technischen und organisatorischen Anforderungen auch Einfluss auf die Fabrikplanung. In diesem Fachbeitrag wird ein neues Konzept für die Integration von additiver Fertigung unter Berücksichtigung von Industrie 4.0 in der Fabrikplanung diskutiert. Es werden Erkenntnisse über Spezifika entlang des Fabrikplanungsprozesses nach VDI 5200 auf Basis von Experteninterviews vorgestellt.   Additive Manufacturing will change the future of manufacturing. Therefore, it will affect the factory planning process with its new requirements. A new concept for the integration of additive manufacturing in consideration of industry 4.0 in factory planning will be discussed in this paper. Furthermore, specifics of additive manufacturing along the VDI 5200 factory planning process will be displayed based on interviews with experts.

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VR Enhanced Scenario Technique Supporting the Early Phases of Factory Planning

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.769.343 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 769 ◽

pp. 343-349 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christian Weidig ◽

Nicole Menck

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Planning Process ◽

Immersive Virtual Reality ◽

Flexible Production ◽

Factory Planning ◽

Industrial Companies ◽

Uncertain Future ◽

Scenario Technique ◽

Set Up ◽

Early Phases

Industrial companies have to face fast changing markets and increasing customer demands regarding individual configuration of products. Within this turbulent environment initially defined planning circumstances and assumptions are no longer reliable over the whole factory life-cycle. As one approach to react on such uncertainties, flexible production planning is considered. Factories should be able to adapt according to changing demands and suit to even unforeseen constraints. To allow such flexibility, the factory planning process must be executed with special attention on the early phases. While setting up the key objectives and establishing the project basis, a focus on flexibility has to be mandatory. The constraints on which planning bear on need to be defined, but also their adaptation over the factory life-cycle must be considered. To overcome this dilemma of required level of detail but concurrent uncertain future estimations, scenario technique is proposed as a method in strategic company management. This paper deals with the extension of the scenario technique to be applicable during factory planning as one operative method in the early phases of ‘preparation’ and ‘structure planning’. By using immersive Virtual Reality (VR) tools, a visualization component will be added. This will make future scenarios more graspable for multi-domain planning teams and serve as a mean of communication on which decision making can be set up.

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A Multi-Touch Planning Table to Support Participatory Factory Planning

ASME 2010 10th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, Volume 4 ◽

10.1115/esda2010-24545 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Uwe Dombrowski ◽

Christoph Riechel ◽

Sebastian Weckenborg

Keyword(s):

Production Management ◽

Planning Process ◽

Shop Floor ◽

Technical Equipment ◽

Planning Team ◽

Layout Planning ◽

Time Activity ◽

Factory Planning ◽

Research Activities ◽

Planning Methods

The factory as a place of value-adding activities is forced to adapt continuously to turbulent conditions. New requirements regarding flexibility, speed, mobility and cost efficiency are some of factory planning. Hence the role of factory planning has developed from a one-time activity to a continuous management task. To achieve optimal results with regard to the new requirements it is necessary to analyze the existing processes and the functionality of the technical equipment at the workplace in detail. Therefore the existing methods of factory planning have to be improved. This paper focuses on the improvement of factory layout planning methods. One of the main areas of research of the Institute for Production Management and Enterprise Research (IFU) is the participatory layout planning. The goal of the research activities is to develop a method to integrate the employees from the shop-floor level into the planning process since they have special knowledge of the processes and technical equipment, which is necessary to achieve optimized planning results. To support the implementation of the participatory factory planning the IFU — in co-operation with the foresee GmbH — started the development of a participatory planning table called T3Pad (Tangible table top to enhance participation and development). The T3Pad is a conventional conference table with an integrated multi-touch display. The use of a gesture based software for layout planning offers the factory planning team the opportunity to design a layout by using the existing knowledge of the “classic” planning departments as well as the special manufacturing experience of the shop-floor employees. In order to realize the participation of the whole planning team the software has to comply with two major requirements: on the one hand the requirement in terms of the database and rules of factory planning; on the other hand the requirement of the usability of the software interfaces. Until now the users of factory planning methods have to adapt themselves to the function mode of computers instead of interacting and communicating in an intuitive way. This leads to limited interaction between user and hardware. The main goal of the T3Pad is an optimal support of the user by the software interface. To reach this goal the IFU started a field study to analyze the adoption of gesture based software interaction.

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