Abstract
Shopfloor management systems are currently undergoing a change. With the era of Industry 4.0, traditional shop floor management concepts are changing to new and digitally supported approaches for the coordination and management of production at the shop floor level. In order to investigate this change, the research project “Smart Shopfloor” is aiming to develop a software prototype for production management in the era of Industry 4.0. Requirements of industry are collected through literature review and workshops with industry and are translated into software functionalities. These functionalities lead, via an Axiomatic Design (AD) decomposition to design solutions for Smart Shop Floor Management systems. The results of the AD study form the basis for the software architecture and the definition of core and add-on functionalities of the software prototype. The focus of this paper lies on the AD decomposition of the design concept and further gives an overview of potential functionalities. In future, the developed concept will then be implemented in a lab environment before implementing and testing it in industrial case studies.
Highlights
IntroductionThe industrial environment is changing radically with the introduction of industry 4.0
In recent years, the industrial environment is changing radically with the introduction of industry 4.0
Through the introduction of so called cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the internet of things (IoT) data models work in real time and the production becomes transparent [2]
Summary
The industrial environment is changing radically with the introduction of industry 4.0. Due to increasingly adaptable production systems and the introduction of Industry 4.0 in companies, the pursuit of economies of scale as a means of reducing costs is losing importance, as many process steps can be combined much more flexibly. This means that customerspecific production at low costs is possible with connected production technologies. The comprehensive real-time transparency in industry 4.0 enables early decision making and flexible reactions to turbulence in production as well as global optimization across locations The overall goals, such as the highest possible output (resource productivity) and the lowest possible use of resources for a given product quantity (resource efficiency), are maintained in industry 4.0. Based on existing expertise in industrial companies the research partner Solunio GmbH developed a commercial software for smart shopfloor management with three layers (see Figure 1)
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