Gregor Von Cieminski

ZF Friedrichshafen · Corporate Supply Chain Management

This two-volume set, IFIP AICT 663 and 664, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2022, held in Gyeongju, South Korea in September 2022. The 139 full papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 153 sub...

This two-volume set, IFIP AICT 663 and 664, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2022, held in Gyeongju, South Korea in September 2022. The 139 full papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 153 sub...

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial in...

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial in...

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial in...

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial in...

The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial in...

Since its inception in 1978, the IFIP Working Group (WG) 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) has played an active role in the fields of production and production management. The Working Group has focused on the conception, development, strategies, frameworks, architectures, processes, methods, and tools needed for the advancemen...

TC 5: Information Technology Applications

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 566 and 567 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2019, held in Austin, TX, USA. The 161 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. They discuss globally pressing issues in smart m...

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 566 and 567 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2019, held in Austin, TX, USA. The 161 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. They discuss globally pressing issues in smart m...

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 513 and 514 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2017, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2017. The 121 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. They are organized in the fol...

The research on Industry 4.0 is increasing in importance over the years due to the expectation that it represents a new industrial paradigm, increasing competitiveness to the industries that can adopt it. The objective of this paper is to study the main points of research on Industry 4.0, featured universities and research centers. Using methodolog...

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 513 and 514 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2017, held in Hamburg, Germany, in September 2017. The 121 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. They are organized in the fo...

As business conditions change rapidly, the need for integrating business and technical systems calls for novel ICT frameworks and solutions to remain concurrent in highly competitive markets. A number of problems and issues arise in this regard. In this paper, four big challenges of enterprise Information systems (EIS) are defined and discussed: (1...

The two volumes IFIP AICT 459 and 460 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2015, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2015. The 163 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sec...

This paper reports on enhancements of the global sourcing process proposed with the purpose of increasing the weight of criteria related to supply chain design in sourcing decisions. In a conceptual study carried out for a German automotive supplier, the global sourcing process proposed by Alard et al. was found to be most suitable for industrial a...

Measurements of logistics costs are necessary for manufacturing companies to be able to evaluate the cost effects and trade-offs of logistics management decisions. This case study highlights the challenges ZF Friedrichshafen AG faced during the implementation of a process-oriented logistics-costs measurement framework. The discussion of possible so...

In order to fully utilise the potential of superior logistic performance as a competitive factor, manufacturing companies have to engage in performance measurement. The Logistic Performance Measurement Systems that have so far been proposed suffer from conceptual shortcomings. These are revealed by analyses of the available literature and especiall...

Despite spending considerable effort on the design and operation of production planning and control systems, manufacturing companies experience logistic performance deficits. Frequently, these are due to inconsistencies between the logistic objectives the companies set themselves and the planning and control actions they take to achieve the objecti...

Kurzfassung Der Beitrag stellt die am Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik (IFA) der Leibniz Universität Hannover entwickelten qualitativen Wirkmodelle der industriellen Unternehmenslogistik vor. Diese Modelle bilden die Wirkzusammenhänge zwischen den logistischen Zielgrößen und den Planungs- und Steuerungsparametern ab. Sie ermöglichen es Indus...

Using logistic performance management approaches, manufacturing companies can identify logistic performance deficits and potentials for improvement. Additionally, logistic performance diagnoses enable the companies to practically determine the causes of-the deficits and suitable improvement actions.

Manufacturing companies often merely attain reduced levels of logistic performance due to inconsistencies between their logistic objectives, logistic performance targets and logistic performance management actions. Qualitative influence models represent the inter-dependencies between these factors on two levels: firstly between logistic objectives,...

Different types of models are used to describe the interdependencies between logistic performance measures of production systems in research and practice. The most widely known analytical models in this field are queuing theory models. Simulation, on the other hand, is a widespread technique for the exploration, design and optimisation of complex p...

Manufacturing companies often complain about the difficulties they face in meeting their customers’ logistic requirements. Many blame the perceived inadequacies of their production planning and control (PPC) software for their performance deficits. The paper illustrates why this is only a partial view of the causes of the shortcomings. PPC software...

The influence of human actors on production planning and control (PPC) systems is significant. This paper describes a number of ways, in which human interaction with PPC systems affects the logistic performance of production. It demonstrates how human decisions and behaviour can act as stumbling blocks for PPC. Logistic models and PPC procedures th...

Human operators have important influences on the logistic behaviour of manufacturing cells. In many of the possible configurations of a manufacturing cell, operators represent the bottleneck of the cell. Thus they dominate the cells logistic behaviour. This paper explains how the theory of logistic manufacturing cell operating curves considers huma...

In the production logistics context, the process reliability of supply chains corresponds to their ability to meet the logistic performance expectations of customers. This ability depends on the contributions of all supply chain members to the logistic performance of the entire chain. The overall performance is affected by the dynamic Interrelation...

In the production logistics context, the process reliability of supply chains corresponds to their ability to meet the logistic performance expectations of customers. This ability depends on the contributions of all supply chain members to the logistic performance of the entire chain. The overall performance is affected by the dynamic interrelation...

The aim of an ongoing research project carried out by six European research and educational institutions is to establish a Virtual Institute for the Modelling of Industrial Manufacturing Systems (VIMIMS). The VIMIMS virtual institute has been designed to become an international platform for teaching and research in the field of analysis, design and...

This paper is concerned with the case study of the supply chain of a German cutting tool manufacturer. The Institute of Production Systems and Logistics (IFA) carried out a comprehensive analysis of the supply chain in cooperation with the companies that are partners in the chain. The analysis was carried out from a production logistics perspective...

The authors propose a “generic” reference framework to integrate modeling methods typically adopted to engineer a manufacturing system under a unifying “umbrella”. These methods — from formal descriptive modelling to analytical modelling and simulation modelling methods — originate from different disciplines and serve different purposes.

The aim of an ongoing research project carried out by six European research and educational institutions is to establish a Virtual Institute for the Modelling of Industrial Manufacturing Systems (VIMIMS). The virtual institute is designed to become an international platform for teaching and research for this particular scientific field. VIMIMS is a...