Entries Tagged: Flexible Manufacturing

by Markus Erlmann | 03 Jul 2009

Is your laptop cooled by a fan? I guess so … it might be one from ebm-papst, one of our customers. But this is just one of the industries ebm-papst sells their products to.

They use flexible manufacturing lines to react fast to changing customer demands. Mr. Weisser, plant manager location St.Georgen, said they face manufacturing quantity variation of up to 200 percent. The challenge is to design a production system with an intelligent balancing between highest quality, maximum flexibility and an optimized price. From his point of view, only an integrated and digital planning solution can solve this equation.

Mr. Weisser reports a 30 percent reduction in overall planning time by using the Tecnomatix solution.

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by Markus Erlmann | 17 Jun 2009

Recently, I read about a mobile phone company which mentioned that they need to adjust their manufacturing lines every three weeks due to the fluctuation in the amount of mobile phones they sell over time.Besides reducing manufacturing cost, increasing flexibility is one of the most important goals of manufacturing companies. The main reason is the non-predictable customer demands which change over time.

Let’s look at the most flexible part of a production line: humans … we are much more flexible in terms of reacting to changing conditions than robots or other automated equipment. But most manufacturing lines are highly automated.

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Tags: tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | Digital Factory | Jack | Digital Manufacturing | Flexible Manufacturing |

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