Abstract
The appropriate response to fluctuating demand situations is a major challenge manufacturing companies currently have to face these days. In particular, the selection of appropriate measures to adapt the production system efficiently is difficult. In order to handle an expected demand fluctuation, the goal is to reply the question about the optimal adjustment time of production systems in combination with measures of capacity synchronization. By the identification of influencing variables this optimum can be found for individual measures as well as for measure combinations. With the help of dynamic capacity envelopes, a pragmatic visualization is provided as well.
Highlights
Volume flexibility enables an adaption of the production output to the current market situation
Important is the volume capacity in complex and hardly predictable demand situations [12]. Both declining demand and demand receipts have to be leveled by volume flexibility [10]
Further volume flexibility has to permit a rapid synchronization to rising demand in the initial and growth phase of a product life cycle
Summary
Keywords Fluctuating Demand, Volume Flexibility, Capacity Synchronization, Production Design To achieve an adequate volume flexibility, operational measures are needed that can adapt the production system efficiently to changes in demand. The load caused by a given demand situation, fluctuates in a short term to the normal-capacity value.
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