Dennis Kolberg

DIGIMONDO · Research & Development

The Lean Production paradigm has become the major approach to create highly efficient processes in industry since the early 1990s. After the sudden end of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) era, which finally was doomed to fail due to its unrulable complexity of the required automation technology, the Lean approach was successful because o...

Methods and principles of Lean Production have become the major concepts to create highly efficient processes since the early 1990s. Due to its high effectiveness by reducing complexity and focusing on value-adding tasks, the Lean concept is still successful. Nevertheless, its changeability to produce highly customised products is limited. Industry...

Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) has left its infancy. It has become one of the core technologies for the digitalization of various domains. With this transition, IoT platforms have to address new requirements: Rollouts into business operations require professional integrations in legacy environments and usability for users without a technical b...

Wie gelingt es, das eigene Unternehmen I4.0-tauglich zu machen? Das Zauberwort heißt "digitale Datenautobahn". Darunter verstehen die beiden Autoren Dennis Kolberg und Matthias Göke einen innovativen Lösungsansatz - den konsequenten modularen und vernetzten Aufbau von Anlagen, Infrastruktur und IT. "Denn nur so ist es möglich, effizient auf die sic...

Since the 1990s there is no doubt that Lean Production is the state of the art production system in discrete parts manufacturing. With its pull-driven production and elimination of non-value-adding tasks, Lean Production is able to improve efficiency with little invest. Nevertheless, Lean Production is reaching its limits nowadays. It does not take...

Recent market trends require extremely short product life cycles to cope with individual customer requirements. The key technology to deal with these requirements is plug-and-produce, which reduces engineering time to change the production lines rapidly. This challenge is solved by the concept of a modular factory which allows to reconfigure indivi...

The SmartFactory KL working group 2 “Digital Factory” is currently developing a digital representation of the modular Industrie 4.0 Production System described in the SmartFactory KL System Architecture. The SmartFactory KL references to the so-called Administration Shell concept of the Plattform Industrie 4.0 and transfers it exemplarily to its In...

Fluctuating market demands and increasing demand for customized products require reactive production environments. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) describe the integration of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) in production systems in order to enhance their changeability by modularization. Production systems thereby become changeable, but also...

Fluctuating market demands and increasing demand for customized products require reactive production environments. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) describe the integration of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) in production systems in order to enhance their changeability by modularization. Production systems thereby become changeable, but also...

There is little experience in integrating cyber-physical systems (CPS) in production environments nowadays. A coordinated framework with reference architecture, methodology and procedural model can support the adaption of CPS by providing a pre-defined structure and guidelines. This paper describes such a framework, named CyProF, for designing CPS-...

Die mitdenkende Produktion der Zukunft, oder plakativer formuliert das "Internet der Dinge", ist eine hochspannende Vision: Produktionsprozesse werden sich auf eine nicht gekannte Weise verändern, die virtuelle und die reale Welt werden miteinander in Verbindung treten. Bei dieser künftigen Verschmelzung von Produktionstechnologie und Internettechn...

Dieser Beitrag stellt ein Informationsmodell zur durchgängigen Beschreibung von Objekten von der Unternehmensebene bis zur Feldgeräteebene vor. Basierend auf bestehenden, anerkannten Standards wie ISA 95 und MTConnect und unter Verwendung einer semantischen Beschreibung von Informationen befähigt es Cyber-Physische Systeme, sich in Produktionsumgeb...

Lean production is characterized by avoiding of waste. The organization of the internal logistics by using the Kanban-method can lead to waste in transport and motion due to lack of coordination between the release of the order (Kanban) and the execution of the order (milk run). This is where the concept of an intelligent network of different logis...

Lean production is characterized by efficient processes and the avoiding of waste. However, the organization of the internal logistics by using the milkrun method can lead to waste in transport and movement due to lack of information. Cyber-Physical Systems can be used to increase the information transparency. This information can be used to improv...