TY - GEN
T1 - Factory planning modules for knowledge sharing among different locations
AU - Zaeh, Michael F.
AU - Wagner, Wolfgang
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - In order to succeed in close-to-saturated markets, companies must offer services that are tailored to suit their customers' individual needs. This necessitates intensive interaction between the supplier and the customer. In order to produce increasingly individualised products close to customer markets, in comparison with today's production structures, a much larger number of factories will be necessary. The factories are distributed locally and directly in the actual markets and therefore have to be adapted to market-specific conditions. Decentralised knowledge needs to be utilised in order to exploit location-specific potentials, and the experience and knowledge about improvements that have been realised in production processes has to be shared among different locations. The use of preconfigured planning modules makes it possible to plan and re-plan factories relatively quickly on the one hand and facilitates reliable planning on the other hand. Digital tools and interactive input media support participatory planning and promote the documentation of knowledge as well as the transfer of knowledge among different locations.
AB - In order to succeed in close-to-saturated markets, companies must offer services that are tailored to suit their customers' individual needs. This necessitates intensive interaction between the supplier and the customer. In order to produce increasingly individualised products close to customer markets, in comparison with today's production structures, a much larger number of factories will be necessary. The factories are distributed locally and directly in the actual markets and therefore have to be adapted to market-specific conditions. Decentralised knowledge needs to be utilised in order to exploit location-specific potentials, and the experience and knowledge about improvements that have been realised in production processes has to be shared among different locations. The use of preconfigured planning modules makes it possible to plan and re-plan factories relatively quickly on the one hand and facilitates reliable planning on the other hand. Digital tools and interactive input media support participatory planning and promote the documentation of knowledge as well as the transfer of knowledge among different locations.
KW - Close-to-market production
KW - Factory planning modules
KW - Individualised products
KW - Media for interactive planning
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84872732883
U2 - 10.1007/0-387-23078-5_19
DO - 10.1007/0-387-23078-5_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872732883
SN - 0387230653
SN - 9780387230658
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 239
EP - 251
BT - Integrating Human Aspects in Production Management - IFIP TC5/WG5.7 Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Aspects in Production Management
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - IFIP TC5/WG5.7 International Conference on Human Aspects in Production Management
Y2 - 5 October 2003 through 9 October 2003
ER -