Max Juraschek

Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences · Faculty of Automotive Engineering

Dynamic scheduling plays a pivotal role in smart manufacturing by enabling real-time adjustments to production schedules, thereby enhancing system resilience and promoting sustainability. By efficiently responding to disruptions , dynamic scheduling maintains productivity and stability, while also reducing resource consumption and environmental imp...

Virtual Reality (VR) technology offers a safe and flexible environment for conducting operator training in different scenarios. For learning purposes, VR has proven to be highly efficient in comparison to conventional learning media for specific tasks. However, an adequate design of a natural user interface (NUI) is required, including accessibilit...

Als Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Automobilproduktion wird im Folgenden die Substitution mit umweltverträglichen Werkstoffen in Form von Holz und CO2-reduziertem Stahl im Karosserieanlagenbau evaluiert. Hierzu werden mittels einer Fallstudie bei einem Betriebsmittel des Anlagenbaus die Potenziale analysiert und resultierende Zielkonflikte identifiziert....

Traditional centralized industrial mass-production systems facilitate the efficient use of resources such as time, labor and materials by making use of scale effects. However, centralized production systems can also lead to an increase in resource demands, e.g. due to overproduction of consumer goods. Therefore, decentralized production systems are...

The potential positive contributions of urban factories towards the sustainable development of cities have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Urban factories can contribute to the economic development and social welfare of cities. However, factories embedded in urban surroundings are still often associated with negative impacts such as n...

Resilience is becoming an increasingly important trait for global and lean supply chains, especially due to recent external shocks or disruptions to supply chains, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the Suez Canal blockage or the container shortage. Furthermore, megatrends and ongoing developments as for instance a rapidly growing global population, ad...

Current production processes are frequently dependent on global supply chains for raw materials and prefabricated inputs. With rising political and global risks, these supply networks are threatened, which leads to a reduction of supply chain resilience. At the same time, urban areas are currently one of the main consumers of products and waste mat...

Socio-technical systems represent complex interactions of humans with ecological, social and economic systems. A system’s design and its operations determine whether its impact is “negative”, “neutral/zero” or “positive” over the system life cycle with regard to its contribution to sustainable development. But coping with exceeded planetary boundar...

The developed concept and methods can support the analysis and development of sustainable urban production in different applications. To show the feasibility, two case studies are presented with different regional scope, products and perspectives on urban production. The first case study describes the establishment of an urban micro brewery in Germ...

Urban production as a conceptual understanding is rooted in several scientific disciplines, which traditionally are treated seperately. With definitions of urbanity, factories and their interfaces, a guiding frame can be laid out leading to the definition of urban production as synthesis. The identification of exchange flows and their resulting eff...

Today, factories and cities are often still treated as separate systems from single discipline’s perspectives. However, the manufacturing of products in urban production sites is connected to unique potentials, yet also to specific challenges. Urban factories can provide functional diversity and contribute positive impacts to a city. A common refer...

Currently, half of the global population is living in cities and it is projected that by 2050 this share will exceed two thirds (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2014). In cities, the concentrated population is accompanied with an intensified demand for products and services. Against the background of a rapidly growing urba...

Urban production systems are connected with the surrounding quarter, city and region through input and output flows of energy, materials and information. The analysis, purposeful design and coupling of these exchange flows can support minimizing the negative impacts induced by urban and production activities and enabling the generation of positive...

Production sites and factories in urban areas recently receive significant attention in research and planning. However, the impacts of production sites located in cities on their urban surroundings, the (socio-)economic implications and possible further effects, for instance on consumption behavior, are not yet fully analyzed.

Manufacturing of products in urban production sites is connected to unique potentials, yet also to specific challenges. Urban factories can provide functional diversity and contribute positive impacts to a city. The concept of urban production receives rising attention in research and industry and it is recognized in its interdisciplinary nature. W...

The market environment of manufacturing companies is characterized by numerous challenges. In the course of individualized mass production, companies are faced with the challenge of efficiently and flexibly fulfilling customer-specific production orders. Consequently, current production is characterized by a high diversity of variants, small produc...

Closed-loop manufacturing enables the integration of waste material and end-of-life products into the manufacturing processes of new products. As additive manufacturing in the form of filament-based 3D printing is becoming more frequently used, this process can be utilized to create a closed-loop process chain for the recycling of plastic waste mat...

As additive manufacturing technologies become widely available as desktop 3D printers, opportunities for decentralized manufacturing arise. The goal of the 3-CYCLE project is to produce plastic filament for 3D printing by recycling waste plastics and thus moving towards sustainable decentralized manufacturing. Leading to the question which product...

Ongoing urbanization and increasing decentralization of production have increased interest in the urban factory concept. Urban factories are production systems located in an urban environment that make use of the unique resources and characteristics of their surroundings to create products locally with a potentially high degree of customer involvem...

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in factories provide controlled conditions for workers and production equipment. At the same time, these systems are responsible for a significant share of industrial energy consumption. Commonly, HVAC systems are treated separately from production systems. However, numerous interactions and...

Innovations in manufacturing technology and ongoing digitalization require the constant acquisition of new skills and competencies. Especially in the case of emerging technologies, insecurities and reservations can cause challenges for implementation. Events for facilitating innovation, education and training, as for instance hackathons or code-cam...

Scaled learning factories are industrial learning environments that provide production systems and processes for learners on a model scale rather than using actual productive machines. This approach has benefits as for instance lower invest, increased approachability and higher safety levels. At the same time, constraints for implementation of actu...

Urbanization and the limited environmental carrying capacity of our planet are crucial challenges for human kind. Industrial value creation and the production of goods have a significant role in the worldwide emissions pattern. A biologically oriented conception of technical systems with the goal of a sustainable added value is summarized as “biolo...

Agricultural food production systems are essential to face current and future climate, food security and nutrition challenges. Several novel urban agriculture production concepts are utilizing symbiotic production and distributed/urban production principles to address these challenges. Life cycle engineering can support the planning and design of p...

Mehr als die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung lebt heute in Städten, mit steigender Tendenz. In städtischen Gebieten konzentrieren sich viele Herausforderungen auf dem Weg zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Industrielle Produktion und Fabriken im urbanen Raum sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der wirtschaftlichen Stärke wachsender Städte, obwohl sie häuf...

Cities are a hotspot for resource consumption. This is induced, among other activities, by housing, transportation, trade, the production of goods and the use of products and services. Industrial production and urban factories are an essential part of a city’s economy although they are commonly associated with negative impacts, e.g. on the environm...

Rapid urbanization has forced to change not only the shape of growing cities but also the location and appearance of factories. This development is closely linked to more sustainable products and production and will subsequently affect the production systems. It is envisaged that factories and distributed production sites will be able to move back...

Rapid urbanization changes not only the shape of growing cities but also the appearances of factories. This development is closely linked to the current trend towards more sustainable products and production and will subsequently affect the production systems of city-produced goods. For certain products, it will be possible in the future for factor...

Value creation and manufacturing of products is an important part of cities’ sustainable development. Urban-Factories allow such value creation within urban areas. Although Urban-Factories might have unintended negative impacts on their neighborhood, mainly environmental impacts, their urban location can offer positive impacts for both the surround...

Supporting engineers with insights on product- or process related environmental impacts requires comprehensive interpretations of complex LCA models and results. Those rely on large amounts of data as well as different engineering models, both within the technosphere and at the interface to the ecosphere. Methods from visual analytics can support t...

The application of the edge computing paradigm in manufacturing unlocks novel data-driven improvements in factories while securing data ownership, reducing data transmission effort and storage costs. However, diversity and complexity of manufacturing systems hamper identification and exploitation of the full potential of data processing near machin...

Ein signifikanter Anteil der weltweiten Wertschöpfung wird in Städten erwirtschaftet. Die Produktion im urbanen Umfeld umfasst eine Vielzahl von Handlungsfeldern und erfordert die Betrachtung vielfältiger materieller und immaterieller Wechselwirkungen. Historisch sind Produktion und urbaner Raum eng miteinander verknüpft. Die urbane Produktion und...

Die Produktion erfährt in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und Personalisierung einen grundlegenden Paradigmenwechsel. Dabei wird das urbane Umfeld in Zukunft der wichtigste Standort für Wertschöpfung sein, da es aufgrund seiner hohen Dichte an Wissen und Kreativität, Arbeitskräften, Infrastruktur sowie Verbrauchern und Prosumern viele Potentiale bietet....

Mixed Reality (MR) applications are currently finding their way into productive industrial activities due to recent technological developments. Promising fields of professional utilization for MR are information visualization, education and training, human machine interfaces, design tools and collaboration. In Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) great amo...

More than half of the world's population lives in cities today with the rate of urbanization further increasing. In urban areas the challenges of sustainable development are concentrated. The importance of sustainable cities and communities are recognized in the sustainable development goals by the United Nations, as are sustainable industrial deve...

A large share of environmental impacts is linked with working and living in urban areas. In densely populated spaces, a high share of consumption and value creation can be found. Urban factories aim to manufacture products close to the customer. Here, several stakeholders such as companies, employees, customers and neighborhood are involved. Urban...

Supported by rapid technological development, mixed reality (MR) applications are increasingly deployed in industrial practice. In manufacturing, MR can be utilized for information visualization, remote collaboration, human-machine-interfaces, design tools and education and training. This development makes new demands on learning factories in two m...

Industrial symbiosis is enabled when physical exchanges of by-products take place between companies within and across different industries. It can be an important strategy in realising the vision of “zero waste to landfill” especially for a land-scarce country like Singapore. The success of industrial symbiosis relies on companies working collectiv...

Cities are very diverse and highly dynamic systems. For analysis, planning and control of those kind of complex systems, simulation is frequently used. To cope with the vast complexity of a city or even a small district, simulation models usually focus on distinct spatial and functional subsystems. In this paper, city-planning gaming software is an...

Considering environmental aspects is of growing interest over all life cycle phases of products. Being based on renewable and/or bio-degradable resources, bioplastics enable a positive contribution towards sustainable products in material and end of life phase. However, bioplastics can be more energy intensive during their manufacturing phase than...

Closed-loop manufacturing reintegrates components and/or materials from the end-of-life products as input flows to produce new products. Today, most learning factories focus on the actual manufacturing system. Some learning factories extend the perspective and include the product development and product use phase. To enlarge the learning perspectiv...

Motivated by the rising costs of doing business overseas and the rise and implementation of digital technologies in production, new strategies are being explored to bring production and demand closer. While concepts like cloud computing, internet of things, and digital manufacturing increasingly gain relevance within the production activities of ma...

Although manufacturing companies increasingly acknowledge the environmental impacts of their activities disregarding where in the supply chain these occur, a factory perspective is still predominant within the environmental management practices of organizations. The adoption of a life cycle perspective in the Manufacturing industry is essential to...

Rapid development in ICT and production engineering and the subsequent joining of both fields result currently in the creation of cyber-physical production systems. With these new technologies innovative didactic concepts are required to cope with new arising tasks on the job and in the development of such systems. Learning environments have proven...

In this work the fused deposition modeling (FDM) process is operated with filament from recycled plastic contributing to closed material loops and lower environmental impacts as well as exploiting economic and social potentials. A closed loop process design is proposed in which waste plastic material is collected and filament made out of it for the...

In the recent past global industries started to take action towards energy efficient manufacturing to oppose the challenges of the increasing demand for natural resources. Substantiated competencies on energy efficiency measures can serve as a competitive advantage especially in energy intensive manufacturing environments. Learning environments tha...