This master's thesis develops a method for the quantifiable evaluation of the adaptability of conveyor and material flow technology in brownfield production logistics systems. The aim is to enable companies in discrete manufacturing to carry out an in-depth analysis of their own production in order to identify the need for change and to optimize weak points.
To this end, a literature review is used to develop the basics of production logistics systems, adaptability and evaluation approaches as well as a detailed state of the art and research. Finally, the need for a low-effort, feature-based quantitative method for the technical assessment of the adaptability of conveyor and material flow technology is derived from this.
Using existing literature approaches and established engineering methods, a top-down, bottom-up assessment procedure and application tool is then developed, which is integrated into a control loop-like structure. At the center of this procedure and the control loop is the comparison of the requirements for the production logistics system with the adaptability properties of the system objects. The adapted house of logistical changeability enables a target/actual comparison in order to determine critical requirements for the system and limiting properties of the objects from which specific optimizations can be derived.
The method is then evaluated by two factory planning experts and a fictitious use case, which demonstrates the potential of a methodical evaluation and the need for practice-oriented improvements to the application tool and the method.
This master's thesis thus shows both the need for research into the adaptability of production logistics systems and at the same time provides a basic approach to how this can be evaluated from a technical point of view, which must be deepened and expanded holistically through subsequent research work.
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This master's thesis develops a method for the quantifiable evaluation of the adaptability of conveyor and material flow technology in brownfield production logistics systems. The aim is to enable companies in discrete manufacturing to carry out an in-depth analysis of their own production in order to identify the need for change and to optimize weak points.
To this end, a literature review is used to develop the basics of production logistics systems, adaptability and evaluation approaches a...
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