Increasing the Traceability Through Targeted Data Acquisition for Given Product Process Combinations

Abstract

Today's manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge to achieve a high adherence to delivery dates under volatile market demands and to achieve a high efficiency of the order to delivery process. This challenging situation can only be handled with the help of an optimal alignment of the production, the production planning as well as the production controlling processes. Sufficient and high quality information from the production are the major basis for successfully mastering the tasks of production planning and control. With the help of the approach proposed in this paper, companies can start setting up a targeted data acquisition concept for their product process combination. It helps them, amongst other things, preventing production problems and responding rapidly to fluctuating customer needs.