Jens Buergin

• Doctor of Engineering
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Competitive production planning has to enable the realization of customer requirements regarding order configurations and lead times. In case short lead times are required, medium-term planning must take place when customer orders have not been received yet. In the short-term, robustness can be achieved by minimizing the impact of adapting the medi...

As a result of the increasing interdependencies within global production networks, the importance of an improved coordination of the associated individual processes is continuously rising. In particular, enormous potential is expected from a stronger integration of production and logistics planning and control. While previous approaches have mainly...

Multi-variant products to be assembled on mixed-model assembly lines at locations within a production network need to be scheduled locally. Scheduling is a highly complex task especially if it simultaneously covers the assignment of orders, which are product variants to be assembled within a production period, to assembly lines as well as their seq...

Given today's customer requirements in different market segments, companies are facing increased complexity when utilising their global production networks. To meet long-term corporate goals, the consideration of customer requirements at early production planning stages and during the order fulfilment processes becomes essential. A holistic approac...

Production of multi-variant products in a network requires the assignment of customer orders to locations and periods. This is a highly complex planning task, as requirements of procurement, production, distribution, and sales have to be considered. Providing customers with the flexibility of configuring their ordered products after order assignmen...

Aircraft manufacturers are challenged with increasing demand requiring customers to place orders months in advance respect to the time aircrafts will be operative. Consequently, customers decide aircraft's size but have additional time to select cabin fittings. Nevertheless, manufacturers must promise a delivery time, regardless real aircraft confi...

The demand for flexibility in the configuration of highly customized capital goods such as aircrafts is rising. Customers request specifying product options later than required by the currently defined order fulfilment process of the OEM. However, late changes of previously configured products can cause disturbances in global production networks. I...

This paper proposes a systematic approach for gathering requirements during production through customers’ remote access to the partially and fully assembled aircraft and its modules. The paper also proposes an evaluation and management of these recorded requirements and their utilization in the development of an aircraft. Modular product architectu...

Sustainability of production and supply chains can be achieved by efficient planning. However, customers’ demand for multi-variant products and short lead times poses a challenge for automobile manufacturers not receiving customer orders in the mid-term planning horizon. To meet this uncertainty, this paper shall introduce an approach for anticipat...

Companies operating assembly systems in global production networks constantly have to deal with change drivers. For the design of adaptable assembly systems, change drivers can be considered as fluctuating KPIs, such as labor costs, as well as changing KPI targets, such as rising quality requirements. In this paper, a concept for the design of chan...

In recent years, European manufacturing companies are gradually applying innovative PSS (Product Service Systems), as strategic opportunity for differentiating from competitors, offering an integrated bundle of products and services, targeted on specific needs of different customers. At the same time, frugal innovation has also surged as a new busi...

Build-to-order series production is gaining increasing importance as markets demand customer-specific product variants. Orders have to be assigned to plants and periods in global production networks and then to lines and cycles. Consequently, respective workloads as well as supplied materials have to be balanced due to limitations in resource capac...

The ProRegio project aims at developing manufacturing intelligence based product-service that will rigorously change the current way how customer requirements are addressed by manufacturing companies.

Frugal innovation theory is proposed to help companies rethinking their current product design and production strategies facing competitive challenges. Co-evolution of product and production systems is required to reach frugality goals. The success of the co-evolution strategy should be based on robust models ensuring the global consistency of the...

Produzierende Unternehmen nutzen seit einigen Jahren verstärkt Potentiale der Digitalisierung zur Verbesserung ihrer Produktion. Je nach Grad der Vernetzung sind unterschiedlich viele Bereiche involviert. Industrie 4.0-Anwendungen können somit im Unternehmen verschiedenen Bereichen zugeordnet werden. Zum Bestimmen des Nutzens lassen sich Reifegradm...

To remain competitive in an environment of emerging markets and increasing globalization, many companies in the manufacturing industry are facing challenges. Adding new production capacities or adapting existing production capacities of their manufacturing network becomes necessary to realize local production advantages and for serving new markets....

Baden-Württemberg und der Suzhou Industrial Park gelten als innovative und wirtschaftsstarke Gebiete in Deutschland bzw. in China. Kooperationen zwischen dort ansässigen Unternehmen bieten daher vielversprechende Synergiepotenziale. Durch leitfadenorientierte Interviews mit 25 Experten aus Baden-Württemberg und der Provinz Jiangsu wurden industriel...