Christina Reuter

• Technical University of Munich

This article discusses the need for a paradigm shift towards a more sustainable circular upgrade economy, highlighting the importance of implementing comprehensive measures instead of isolated approaches. It proposes the Green Upgrade Re-Assembly Factory to sustainably upgrade complex mass-produced products for multiple life cycles without compromi...

Die aktuelle Corona-Krise, bedingt durch die COVID-19-Pandemie, stellt viele Unternehmen und ihre Gremien vor große Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig bietet sie aber auch Chancen, Veränderungen anzugehen, die für einen zukünftig andauernden und nachhaltigen Unternehmenserfolg notwendig sind. Dieses Kapitel behandelt die Rolle von Aufsichtsrat und Bei...

In order to stay competitive, many manufacturing companies, especially small and medium sized enterprises (SME), face the challenge to transform their production and the corresponding production planning and control (PPC) processes for the upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) Era. Since their time and cost budget is a constraint, SME need to focus par...

Die Produktionssteuerung ist das zentrale Element, um einen stabilen Produktionsprozess zu realisieren. Um steigender Marktdynamik und wachsenden Kundenanforderungen gerecht zu werden, ist es unumgänglich die zur Produktionssteuerung eingesetzten IT-Systeme auf die sich wandelnde Unternehmensumgebung anzupassen. Industrie 4.0 bietet die Grundlage f...

Cyber Physical Production Control One major problem of today’s producing companies is to reach a high adherence to delivery dates while considering the volatile market situation as well as economic aspects. This problem can only be solved by using a production control that is optimally adapted to the processes. A good working, process-oriented prod...

Manufacturing companies gather a vast amount of data in order to track production, assembly and logistical processes. Among others, these data are used for updating production schedules, deriving process interventions and calculating key performance indicators. However, the integrity of these production feedback data is regularly impaired by variou...

This research area focuses on the management systems and principles of a production system. It aims at controlling the complex interplay of heterogeneous processes in a highly dynamic environment, with special focus on individualized products in high-wage countries. The project addresses the comprehensive application of self-optimizing principles o...

Manufacturing companies in high-wage countries—one of the pillars of the European national economies—are particularly exposed to changes in global markets and rising market volatility. It is therefore necessary that manufacturers in these countries not only focus on reducing costs, but instead address the entire set of commonly defined operational...

Under volatile market conditions, manufacturing companies, which achieve a high adherence to promised delivery dates, possess a considerable advantage over their direct competitors. However, due to dynamically changing production circumstances, this logistical target is rather hard to reach. Excellent production planning and control (PPC) processes...

The proceeding globalization leads to larger and more complex production networks. Especially the production industry forces companies to distribute their production sites around the globe by high cost pressure. Low labor costs, transport costs, distances to potential markets and productivity influences lead to complex decision situations for manag...

Effects of production planning and scheduling measures on the logistical capabilities of a company are limited by the production structure. The segmentation of production can help to improve logistical capabilities but is costly to implement. This paper researches opportunities to foresee the magnitude of possible improvements in logistical variabl...

In order to profit from local differences regarding factor costs, ensure proximity to customers and get access to new markets most of today's manufacturing companies established production sites around the world. Usually the performance of these sites differ significantly. Currently companies are not able to explain and evaluate the performance dis...

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 pro...

Manufacturing companies are increasingly exposed to volatile market conditions. In this environment, ensuring a reliable adherence to promised delivery dates, allows for a considerable competitive advantage. However, due to dynamically changing production circumstances and high varieties in production programs, manufacturing companies regularly fai...

Kurzfassung Mitarbeiter produzierender Unternehmen sehen sich in Zeiten von Industrie 4.0 veränderten Aufgaben und Herausforderungen ausgesetzt. Um den Erhalt von Produktivität und Wettbewerbsvorteilen sicherzustellen, müssen Unternehmen ihre Mitarbeiter im Umgang mit neuen Technologien schulen. Dieser Beitrag stellt Möglichkeiten zur Gestaltung vo...

Competitive market environments force manufacturing companies to achieve a high adherence to logistical targets. As their improvement potential is limited by the production structure, projects to modify machine-segment allocation are usually initiated using variant generation and qualitative evaluation methods which are neither able to identify opt...

The Production structure has a significant effect on manufacturing efficiency, but due to a large number of possible structures there is a lack of methods to systematically define the optimal product structure for a given production program. The described method creates a defined number of possible manufacturing cells from workshop production to li...

The development towards a buyers' market and the associated aim of an efficient manufacturing of the lot size 1 gives rise to a high degree of complexity of modern production processes. In such environments the probability of failures is likewise elevated. The inability to pro-actively avoid failures through a sophisticated failure management syste...

The development towards a buyers' market and the associated aim of an efficient manufacturing of the lot size 1 gives rise to a high degree of complexity of modern production processes. In such environments the probability of failures is likewise elevated. The inability to pro-actively avoid failures through a sophisticated failure management syste...

Assembling large-scale products, such as airplanes, locomotives, or wind turbines, involves frequent process interruptions induced by e.g. delayed material deliveries or missing availability of resources. This leads to a negative impact on the logistical performance of a producer of xxl-products. In industrial practice, in case of interruptions, th...

Die Montage großskaliger Produkte ist von einer hohen Störanfälligkeit geprägt. Um die Dauer eines Montagestillstandes zu verkürzen, haben das WZL der RWTH Aachen und das IPH Hannover gemeinsam eine Methode entwickelt, welche die Identifikation von Montageplanalternativen und deren Bewertung anhand der logistischen Zielgrößen im Störungsfall ermögl...

To achieve a high logistical performance, adjustments in production structure are inevitable. The impact of structural changes however remains unclear. To investigate the effects of changes concerning production structure on logistical targets, the use of simulation models is possible. In this paper, we propose an approach for dynamically generatin...

This paper presents an approach for manufacturing startup companies to reconfigure their organization and processes as a consequence of changing preconditions. Startup companies can be agile and adapt their organization continuously towards their preconditions and given resources better than established companies. The presented approach comprises t...

In order to seize the full potential of production on a global scale, companies need to constantly evolve their production networks and reconsider the number of sites. Decision making in this context forces corporations to process a substantial amount of information and complexity. Prominent examples of German companies (e.g. Stihl or Steiff) prove...

Immer kundenindividuellere Prozessketten sowie eine gleichzeitig steigende Marktdynamik stellen Unternehmen und insbesondere die Produktionssteuerung vor große Herausforderungen. Das Forschungsprojekt ProSense erarbeitet Lösungen für eine Produktionssteuerung in Zeiten von Industrie 4.0. Durch eine Analyse der Abweichungen zwischen Plan- und Ist-Da...

Due to the potentials of Industrie 4.0 such as cyber-physical systems, manufacturing companies will connect their intelligent products and machines. The resulting smart factory enables integrated engineering across the entire value chain. Furthermore, intelligent assistance systems will support employees so that they can focus on value adding activ...

Significant increase in productivity of production systems has been an effect of all past industrial revolutions. In contrast to those industrial revolutions, which were driven by the production industry itself, Industrie 4.0 is pushed forward by an enormous change within the current society due to the invention and frequent usage of social network...

Kurzfassung Für mittelständische Unternehmen wird die effiziente Ausrichtung des Produktionsnetzwerkes immer bedeutsamer. Es gilt, eine Standortentscheidung systematisch herzuleiten und sorgsam zwischen Chancen und Risiken abzuwägen, um die vollen Potenziale globaler Wertschöpfung nutzbar zu machen. Viele Unternehmen haben negative Erfahrungen beso...

In the last two decades a large amount of companies decided to establish productions sites all over the world in order to profit from cost benefits and to gain access to new markets and know-how. This internationalisation trend leads to more and more complex production networks. According to this development managers are confronted with growing int...

In this paper, an approach to quantify the effects of disruptions in a complex job shop manufacturing is introduced. Key figures within this approach are the effects of disruptions on logistic targets. With the help of discrete event simulation, the consequences of several disruptions are quantified and visualized.

This paper presents an approach for the operational controlling of the assembly in timed assembly cycles focussing on large-scale products. In order to handle the assembly of small quantities and long assembly times a controlling method based on predefined actions initiated according to the deviation of four KPIs (key performance indicator) can be...

Present challenges of small batch production are represented by the need to improve time-to-market and the reduction of costs. A promising approach to take up these challenges is the use of highly iterative development processes such as Scrum known from software development. A transfer of these principles to process planning enables the prediction...

Kurzfassung Produktionsnetzwerke unterliegen einer großen Dynamik und müssen daher kontinuierlich überprüft und gegebenenfalls strukturell verändert werden. Eine solche Migration eines Produktionsnetzwerks bietet eine Vielzahl möglicher Alternativen. Dieser Beitrag deckt Handlungsbedarfe in der Netzwerkplanung auf und stellt eine Methode zur Ermitt...

Assembling large-scale products involves frequent process interruptions induced by e.g. delayed material deliveries or missing availability of resources. Our approach for identifying alternative assembly sequences by analyzing the product structure and process dependencies allows for continuing with the assembly process in case of interruptions and...

Kurzfassung Eng verknüpft mit der Entwicklung zur Industrie 4.0 steht der Begriff Smart Factory. Die nächste industrielle Revolution bietet jedoch nicht nur Potenziale in Bezug auf den Einzelstandort, sondern auch für die effiziente Vernetzung von Standorten zu einem Smart Network. Entsprechend ist Industrie 4.0 in der Lage, einen wichtigen Beitrag...

Die Produktionssteuerung ist das zentrale Element, um einen stabilen Produktionsprozess zu realisieren. Um steigender Marktdynamik und wachsenden Kundenanforderungen gerecht zu werden, ist es unumgänglich die zur Produktionssteuerung eingesetzten IT-Systeme auf die sich wandelnde Unternehmensumgebung anzupassen. Industrie 4.0 bietet die Grundlage f...

Immer kundenindividuellere Prozessketten sowie eine gleichzeitig steigende Marktdynamik stellen Unternehmen und insbesondere die Produktionssteuerung vor große Herausforderungen. Das Forschungsprojekt ProSense erarbeitet Lösungen für eine Produktionssteuerung in Zeiten von Industrie 4.0. Auf Basis kybernetischer Unterstützungssysteme und intelligen...

Aktuelle Rückmeldedaten und eine effiziente Betriebsdatenerfassung werden im Zeitalter von Industrie 4.0 immer wichtiger. Daher haben sich führende deutsche produktionstechnische Forschungsinstitute im Bereich der Produktionsplanung und -steuerung zur Ausarbeitung einer gemeinsamen Studie zusammengeschlossen, um Handlungsbedarfe zu identifizieren....

Kurzfassung Dem hohen Aufwand für die Anpassung der Prozesse wird in Unternehmen häufig mit dem Aufbau von Prozessmanagementabteilungen und der Einführung von Business Process Management-Systemen begegnet. Die Einführung und Ausrichtung des Prozessmanagements erfolgt häufig ohne Berücksichtigung der Ziele und Herausforderungen des Unternehmens. Die...

Kurzfassung Die Erreichung einer hohen Termintreue stellt für 67 Prozent aller Unternehmen aus dem Maschinen- und Anlagenbau die führende logistische Zielgröße dar. Ansätze, die im Zuge von Industrie 4.0 entwickelt werden, versprechen eine bessere Beherrschung der Produktionsplanung und -steuerung (PPS), welcher bei der Erreichung einer hohen Termi...

Kurzfassung Die Montage von großskaligen und komplexen Produkten zeichnet sich oftmals durch schlechte Datenverfügbarkeit, geringe Prozessstandardisierung und späte Produktänderungen aus, was häufig zu Unterbrechungen des Montageablaufs führt. Gleichzeitig sind die Produktionsressourcen typischerweise sehr flexibel. In einem Forschungsprojekt zwisc...