Ad-hoc Rescheduling and Innovative Business Models for Shock- robust Production Systems

Abstract

Reconfigurability, flexibility, transformability and agility become key enablers of success. This leads to new business models and the necessity of new concepts for production planning along the whole value chain. Adequate methods have to integrate the possibilities of a migration of the network and the changeability of each single plant. Moreover these approaches should be able to cope with uncertainty and reduce the complexity for the decision-makers to a minimum. Consequently, this paper focuses on two major aspects: ad-hoc rescheduling of reconfigurable plants as well as new innovative business models between equipment or component supplier and OEM. Cyber-physical systems will enable new decentralized and autonomously working production equipment and in doing so, reduce complexity and boost up the speed of possible reactions to market shocks. Component suppliers will enrich their portfolio by new bundling approaches including warranties to their products in terms of risk prevention (e.g. warranties for needed time to react to market changes or bottlenecks).