Abstract
Industry 4.0 and digitization are currently changing shop floor management in production. Especially in the production of highly customized and individual products, digitization offers many opportunities for more efficient processes. Providing the right information in the right time at the right place can help to reduce lead time as well as production costs. This paper shows the use of Axiomatic Design to develop a conceptual design for an innovative and digital shop floor information system for supporting assembly operators in machine industry in their daily work. The research is based on a real industrial case study with a medium sized manufacturer of customized machines. Needs from practice were collected through workshops with the industry partner and were translated into functional requirements. These functional requirements were derived with an Axiomatic Design decomposition to design solutions. The results of the AD analysis were used as a basis for the concept design of an operator information system in the company.
Highlights
The main challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the coming years include increasing quality requirements, wide-range production diversity down to batch size one, managing the complexity of production processes and reduce lead time as well as production costs [1]
This work shows the design of a digital shop floor information system by using Axiomatic Design (AD) as development method
AD was helpful, as no software solution could be found for the implementation that would enable all functions
Summary
The main challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the coming years include increasing quality requirements, wide-range production diversity down to batch size one, managing the complexity of production processes and reduce lead time as well as production costs [1]. Due to these growing demands on companies, the concept of rigid production must be reconsidered in several aspects. This work aims to improve the mutual communication within the value chain To enhance this interface, a concept for a digital shop floor information system for assembly operators is developed. The paper concludes with the description of this target state and a digital mock-up, which serves as basis for the implementation of the digital shop floor information system in an industrial SME company
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