Elsevier

Procedia CIRP

Volume 91, 2020, Pages 814-818
Procedia CIRP

Design for Flexibility – Evaluation Interactions between Product Properties and Production Processes

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Abstract

Looking back on the past decade, a steadily growing demand for integrity and shorter development cycles as well as higher flexibility and effectiveness can be observed in both product development and production. This trend continues to this day. Products, as well as their manufacturing and development processes, are becoming more and more complex due to the digital transformation and the new technical possibilities of Industry 4.0, which customers want to exploit to the full. Recently, the trend has become apparent that in the future, customers will be more integrated into product development processes with the help of Industry 4.0. In order to achieve this and to keep their economic strength, companies are striving for increased product and production flexibility to be able to offer products with batch size 1 for the price of series products on the market. In recent years, there have been countless scientific research efforts around Industry 4.0, the integration of the development of production processes into product development processes and the development of technical and methodological approaches to increase flexibility. This publication presents a theoretical approach of a method that can be used to evaluate product and production flexibility of a company on a superior level by independent application. The aim is to provide the user with a tool for determining the maturity of the company with regard to the existing and future increasing demands on flexibility, which he can apply without great technical, monetary and time expenditure.

Keywords

Design to Flexibility
Flexibility Evaluation
Product Generation Process
Industry 4.0 Context

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