Demands on production systems are changing constantly as a result of changing competitive conditions and are linked to the performance goals of time, quality, cost and innovation ability. The increased uncertainty of planning, regarding kinds and volume of producible products, is an especially complicated challenge for production companies, which therefore leads to a growing demand of flexibility. In this context, methods for estimate the flexibility of production systems will be more important. The following article presents the construction and the methodology of an innovative evaluation technique called ecoFLEX, which allows production planners and manager to create reliable statements about their production systems. This paper details the general concept for estimating the flexibility of volume, mix and expansion, and the mathematical approach to calculate concrete ratios for these flexibilities on different levels of the production system -from the workplace level to the factory level. Currently the evaluation method ecoFLEX is experimentally applied by a reputable, globally operating automobile supplier. One of its production areas is analysing deficits in flexibility and evaluating alternatives of extensions on the basis of actual production data. Furthermore, the evaluation-method is assimilating additional requirements re garding pos sible analyses. By doing so, it is pushing the expansion and itemisation of the functionality and of the applicability of ecoFLEX.


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    Title :

    ecoFLEX-inter-branch methodology for flexibility measurement of production systems


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 9 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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