Tobias Teich

Modular System Development for Flexible Adoption of Ubiquitous Challenges in Energy Management and Control

Networking and interconnections are key aspects of energy saving ambitions by application of an intelligent and efficient control of technical facilities, automation and building control systems. Industrial companies and enterprises, municipal housing as well as real estate companies but also private persons at home are facing the challenges to reveal potentials for optimization and furthermore massively reduce their energy costs by utilization of innovative technologies in long-term. Therefore, an enormous variety of available technologies, devices, bus systems, and communication protocols is building the base on the one hand but also forms a heterogeneous landscape of ubiquitously available information sources and sinks on the other hand. Consequently, there are special challenges for the development of a flexible software solution for energy management and control. This paper provides a brief insight into our current work and the development of reusable and flexible software components.

Generation of process variants in automated production planning by using Ant Colony Optimization

Small and medium sized Enterprises (SME) are often in dependence to large-scale enterprises in their role as supplier. Rising international competition increases that pressure to SMEs. Hence, it is enormously important for such enterprises to be able to react fast to customer demands but also to keep high quality standards. Therefore CAPP (Computer Aided Production Planning)-systems were introduced. The paper shows a solution of an automated, integrated solution for automated and integrated process and production planning and defines the part of the generation of process variants.

Developing an integrated solution for generative process planning based on ISO standard 10303

Heterogenic systems and incompatible product data representation are still preventing an efficient and automated product development. This paper provides an insight about necessary requirements for a continuously integrated product development and automated process planning. Additionally, we present our intended solution to innovate the product design under the focus of automated process planning. Therefore, we present some aspects relating to feature based design and standardized product data exchange with ISO 10303, as well as our approaches for developing an integrated solution for process planning.

Evaluation of process variants during the proposal preparation

Abstract There are many important factors for small and medium sized enterprises (SME), especially individual customer demands, price pressure and the probability to deliver at the required date. Companies which want to be supplier for larger companies have to look carefully about these factors already during the proposal preparation. They are often in the branch of single-part or small-series production. One possibility to increase known factors is to consider different variants of manufacturing a product and the premature investigation of resources and there capacities. Therefore, this paper is introducing a conceptional framework for the evaluation of different process variants to manufacture a product. We want to optimise and evaluate process variants including the necessary resources and their capacitive use in an evaluated period. For this evaluation we use a genetic algorithm. Within this paper we define and classify a scheduling problem to map our requirements. Afterwards we explain the necessary information about a genetic algorithm that suites us for the solution of our problem.