Abstract
Shorter product innovation cycles, high variant products, and demand fluctuation, as well as equipment life cycles and technology life cycles force manufacturing companies to regularly change their manufacturing system. In order to address this challenge, an efficient and structured change management is required. As change causes and factory elements are connected via a complex network of relations and flows, an essential step in change management is the evaluation of considered adjustments with regard to their effects on the current production system. Depending on the context of the application, change impact analysis must process specific inputs and deliver different results. Current approaches, however, each focus only on selected aspects of the versatility of change effects. To address this challenge, this paper presents a modular approach for the individual design of change impact analysis.
Highlights
Manufacturing systems are facing a high number of company external as well as company internal influence factors [59]
The diversity of change causes, change management processes, and change impact analysis (CIA) contexts is the major challenge for the presented approach
The procedure was evaluated in the context of product changes as change cause
Summary
Manufacturing systems are facing a high number of company external as well as company internal influence factors [59]. In case an altered requirement cannot be addressed with the available flexibility of the current system, changes or reconfigurations are required [20, 54]. In order to specify the scope of work, Sect. introduces general definitions and boundaries of this work. presents the current state of the art and concludes with respective shortcomings and this contribution’s objectives and benefits. The guideline and its application within the
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