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An Analysis of Challenges and State of the Art for Modular Engineering in the Machine and Plant Manufacturing Domain

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The increasing challenge to manufacture individual products in short periods of time makes a huge amount of machine and plant variants necessary and increases the effort in engineering as well as managing the variability. An adequate support system for modular engineering would increase reuse of variable parts of the machine or plant and, by that, enhance the engineering efficiency. Nevertheless, such a holistic support system is not yet available. This paper analyses the challenges to be addressed and derives a problem model to be investigated for future research to improve the engineering of modular machines and plants.

Source: IFAC-PapersOnLine

DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.08.113

Authors: Stefan Feldmann, Christoph Legat, Birgit Vogel-Heuser

Institution: Technical University of Munich

Language: English

Topic: Product Development and Customization

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft