Violett Zeller

Generative Stücklistenerstellung in der manuellen Montage

Kurzfassung Die Herausforderungen der Zukunft werden gepragt durch digital veredelte Produkte von hochster Qualitat und hoher Variantenvielfalt bei gleichzeitig kleiner werdenden Losgrosen. Konventionelle Entwicklungsmethoden stosen aufgrund zunehmender Komplexitat und kurzer werdender Lebenszyklen auf Produktebene an ihre Grenzen. Dadurch werden bei kundenindividueller Produktion die Aufwande in der Arbeitsplanung und -vorbereitung uberproportional groser. Eine mogliche Losung stellt die generative Erstellung der Produktionsstuckliste wahrend der Montage dar. Durch das eventbasierte „Mitschreiben der Montage“ werden administrative und planungsintensive Prozesse in der Arbeitsvorbereitung uberproportional reduziert und die Erstellung der Stuckliste in die manuelle Montage transferiert.

GradeIT – Prozessqualität bei kleinen und mittleren IT-Service-Providern

ZusammenfassungIm Rahmen der vernetzten Digitalisierung stehen insbesondere kleine und mittlere IT-Organisationen und IT-Dienstleister vor der großen Herausforderung, in einem immer dynamischer werdenden Umfeld Leistungen in hoher Qualität zu liefern. Die Verknüpfung dieser Leistungen mit den zu unterstützenden Geschäftsprozessen und Geschäftsmodellen gestaltet sich schwierig und erfordert eine service- und prozessorientierte Denkweise. Zur Bewältigung dieser Herausforderungen und der Umsetzung des „service- und prozessorientierten Denkens“ bietet das IT-Service-Management (ITSM) Methoden und Maßnahmen zur kundenorientierten, prozessgesteuerten und transparenten Erbringung von IT-Services. Trotz bestehender ITSM-spezifischer Referenzmodelle und Regelwerke werden die beschriebenen Methoden von kleinen und mittleren IT-Organisationen und IT-Dienstleistern kaum genutzt. Der Grund hierfür liegt unter anderem in der hohen Komplexität der Regelwerke und dem damit verbundenen großen Implementierungsaufwand. Es fehlt ein Vorgehen, das die Fähigkeiten und Möglichkeiten von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) berücksichtigt, um IT-Prozesse eigenständig hinsichtlich der Serviceorientierung zu bewerten und zu optimieren.Das Ergebnis des Forschungsvorhabens „GradeIT“ ist eine Vorgehensweise, die KMU dabei unterstützt, relevante IT-Service-Prozesse für sich selbst zu identifizieren, um diese dann eigenständig zu bewerten und auf Basis transparent dargestellter Wirkungszusammenhänge zu spezifischen Einflussfaktoren erfolgversprechende Handlungsempfehlungen auszusprechen. Die Methoden münden in ein Reifegradmodell, das für ein webbasiertes Self-Assessment- und Benchmarking-Tool verwendet wird, welches IT-Organisationen und IT-Dienstleistern online frei zur Verfügung steht, um in Echtzeit ihren ITSM-Umsetzungsreifegrad zu bewerten und eigenständig Maßnahmen abzuleiten.AbstractIn the context of connected digitalization, small and medium sized enterprises (SME) IT-Service-Providers face the challenge to perform services of high quality within a more and more dynamic environment. The difficult conjunction of these services and supporting business processes requires a service- and process-oriented mindset. To accomplish these named challenges and moreover the implementation of this way of thinking, IT Service Management (ITSM) provides methods and procedures for customer-oriented, process-controlled and transparent service delivery.In spite of existing specific ITSM reference models and standards, these mentioned methods are rarely used by SME. The reason for that is the high complexity of the models and also the high effort for implementation. Consequently an approach for SME considering their possibilities and capabilities to discretely optimize and benchmark IT processes with regard to service-orientation, is missing.The research project “GradeIT” represents an approach especially for SMEs to support them by identifying, benchmarking and optimizing relevant IT processes and besides deducing promising suggestions of action for influencing parameters. The basis for that are transparently presented interdependencies. These methods lead to a maturity model which is used for a web-based self-assessment and benchmarking tool. Those are openly available online for IT organizations to assess their stage of maturity in real-time referring to the implementation of ITSM and furthermore independently deflect their own actions.

Assessment of IS Integration Efforts to Implement the Internet of Production Reference Architecture

As part of a collaborative network, manufacturing companies are required to be agile and accelerate their decision making. To do so, a high amount of data is available and needs to be utilized. To enable this from a company internal information system perspective, the Internet of Production (IoP) describes a future information system (IS) architecture. Core element of the IoP is a digital platform building the basis for a network of cognitive systems. To implement and continuously further develop the IoP, manufacturing companies need to make architecture-related decisions concerning the accessibility of data, the processing of the data as well as the visualization of the information. The goal of this research is the development of a decision-support methodology to make those decisions, taking under consideration the evaluated IS integration effort. Therefore, this paper describes the allocation of IS functions and identifies the effort drivers for the respective IS integration by analyzing the integration possibilities. Conclusively this approach will be validated in a case study.

Introducing an Information Logistics Approach to Support the Development of Future Energy Grid Management.

Due to the drastically increasing amount of data, decision making in companies heavily relies on having the right data available. Also because of an increasing complexity of structures and processes, quick and precise flows of information become more important. This paper introduces a new approach for modelling information flows, creating a basis for an efficient information management. It can be used to structure the information requirements and identify gaps within the information processing. To display its benefits, the proposed Information Logistics Notation (ILN) is applied to the information logistics of todays and future energy market and grid stability management, both processes of increasing complexity.

acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index – A Multidimensional Maturity Model

Manufacturing companies worldwide recognized the high potential of Industrie 4.0 in order to increasing production efficiency. Key benefits include creation of integrated systems, networked products and improvement of service portfolios. However, for many companies deriving and evaluating necessary measures to use Industrie 4.0 potentials represents a major challenge. This paper introduces the “acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index” as an approach to meet this challenge. The development of multidimensional maturity model intents to provide companies an assessment methodology. The aim is to capture the status quo in companies in order to be able to develop individual roadmaps for the successful introduction of Industrie 4.0 and manage the transformation progressively.

New Requirement Analysis Approach for Cyber-Physical Systems in an Intralogistics Use Case

Nowadays, cyber physical systems support the improvement of efficiency in intralogistics by controlling and manipulating the production and logistic environment autonomously. Due to the complexity of the individual production processes, designing suitable cyber-physical systems based on their existing production environment is a challenge for companies. This paper presents a new methodology on how to design cyber-physical systems conceptually to suit an individual production environment. Compared to existing design approaches, this methodology matches immediately the required functions to existing information and communication technology’s components insisting on the neutral assimilation of requirements. Therefore, the requirement specification asks for needed functions in relating to offered functions of information and communication technology (ICT) components. The paper focusses the use case of implementing a cutting-edge mobile network technology into an existing tracking and tracing process.

Relevant Capabilities for Information Management to Achieve Industrie 4.0 Maturity

Industrie 4.0 is changing the industrial landscape in an unanticipated way. The vision for manufacturing industries is to transform to an agile company, in order to react on occurring events in real-time and make data based decisions. The realization requires also new capabilities for the information management. To achieve this goal agile companies require taking measured data, analyzing it, deriving knowledge out of this and support with the knowledge their employees. This is crucial for a successful Industrie 4.0 implementation, but many manufacturing companies struggling with these requirements. This paper identifies the required capabilities for the information management to achieve a successful Industrie 4.0 implementation.