Function framework for describing digital technologies in the context of lean production

Georg Hoellthaler, Frederic Meister, Stefan Braunreuther, Gunther Reinhart

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Abstract

Intensifying challenges such as volatility, individualization and consequential complexity increasingly bring lean production systems to their performance limits. Using digital technologies serves as possible solution to overcome the limits of lean production and to enhance its capability of reducing waste within production processes. Therefore, a holistic and generic approach is required that allows to characterize digital technologies with respect to their effects on reducing waste in production processes. This paper introduces a function framework that describes digital technologies based on a function-oriented and impact-driven attribution concerning their effects on reducing waste and therefore on superordinate goals of lean production.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)167-172
Number of pages6
JournalProcedia CIRP
Volume88
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event13th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, CIRP ICME 2019 - Naples, Italy
Duration: 17 Jul 201919 Jul 2019

Keywords

  • Digital technologies
  • Information flow
  • Information functions
  • Information logistics
  • Lean production system (LPS)

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