A holistic approach for value-added interaction modelling in flexible manufacturing systems

摘要

The current digital change within production can be perceived as the answer to the changed customer needs and environmental conditions. Acomprehensive expansion of intelligent and networked production facilities enables complementary networking and agile adaptability at the operative production level. The change in production is accompanied by a changing role profile and task spectrum of the employees. The staff together with the involved machines and supporting IT services create a changeable production network, which thus is composed of heterogeneous participants. In order to master the production tasks and to ensure the effective work distribution within the agile production process modifications, the development of a method for interaction modelling of heterogeneous participants in the production network is shown in this paper. The method offers a holistic understanding of the complex problem: in its successive development, it addresses the users in the engineering phases. The main goal of the method development is the adequate interaction modelling and allocation in the light of the heterogeneity of the participants. The future scenario of autonomous agile manufacturing demands a new method of developing flexible and value adding methods for interaction modelling, which is shown in this paper.