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IMPROVING ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESSES WITH MBSE
Westermann, Thorsten; Anacker, Harald; Dumitrescu, Roman
Type:
Year:
2015
Editor:
Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco CantaMESsa, Dorian Marjanovic, Frederico Rotini
Author:
Series:
ICED
Institution:
Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Technology IPT, Germany
Section:
Product Modularisation, Product Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Service Systems
Page(s):
237-246
ISBN:
978-1-904670-70-4
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
Highly customized products dominate in the mechanical engineering industry. Products like machine tools, food processing or packaging machines are characterized by a high complexity, a low quantity and a long-term machine life. This leads to a high number of variants and project specific modules and components. High efforts during order fulfillment processes occur. The development of mechanical embossed products to Cyber-Physical Systems reinforces the difficulties of the mechanical engineering industry. The interdisciplinary approaches of Systems Engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering are suitable to improve order fulfillment processes. Therefore we introduce an approach to improve order fulfillment processes with Model-Based Systems Engineering. Our results meet the challenges of the mechanical engineering industry as follows: creating a domain-spanning description of the system and the business process to gain a common understanding; optimizing the system architecture by defining mechatronic modules; improving the sustainable communication within the company and with customers by training courses and tool support. The results are validated by a practical example.
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