Production engineering

About: Production engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2657 publications have been published within this topic receiving 37409 citations.

Sharing engineering design knowledge and delivering proven practices in engineering organizations

Abstract: This paper presents an approach for improving the sharing of engineering design knowledge and proven practices in engineering organizations. The scope of engineering in this paper is automation engineering in relation to investment projects in process industries. The role of engineering design knowledge is connected to the overall engineering design process and a practical distributed information system architecture is presented, where the heterogeneous nature of the stored information is taken into account. An information system built for improving the accumulation and sharing of engineering design knowledge is presented as an example.

Smart Production Planning for Sustainable Production based on Federative Factory Data Management

Abstract: For sustainable production of highly customized products a holistic understanding of the whole product life cycle and the whole production process is required. Therefore information of all involved products, processes and resources are needed in real-time. Formerly stakeholders within the product development or the production management had rarely access to this real-time information. But nowadays it is made available by the new type of products and their new forms of communication interfaces, so called cyber-physical systems. The product and the production data management have to adopt to support this new type of information exchange. Accordingly within this paper the integration of cyber-physical systems to the federative factory data management is described first. The integration allows real-time information access to all higher situated domain-specific information technology tools. As showcase this paper then focuses on the adoption of methods of production planning. Therefor the new smart production planning is introduced. Differences between the conventional and smart production planning are presented. The impact of smart production planning for different production planning tasks is then illustrated based on a given example. Within this example the use of smart production planning for smart hierarchical route sheets especially within sustainable production is described.