Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference - Production Organisation and Management

Welcome to IPROMS 2007 Production Organisation and Management Session

iwilliams — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:58:57 +0100

Dear Participants,

Welcome to the Production Organisation and Management session of IPROMS 2007 virtual conference. My name is Adebayo Williams, the co-chairman for this session.

In this session you will find papers dealing with technologies and strategies for achieving long term sustainability, virtual organisation management, building integrated supplier networks, integrated use of technology and Lean Manufacturing to improve Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and more.

I want to encourage all conference participants and visitors to feel free to download any of the conference papers and to actively take part in the discussions. The authors are eager to get your useful comments. Do not forget to also visit the conference’s blog especially if you want to share you humorous side with others.

ICT Services Supporting Virtual Organization Management

hodik — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:48 +0100

The VO Management toolkit (VOM) is a distributed system consisting of several partially independent modules specialized to various tasks. Task of whole VOM is to assist the VO manager by monitoring performance of VO, alerting in case of upcoming or impending deviation in a VO performance, and on up-to-date data simulating alternative VO schedules and configuration to optimize the VO future performance. In this paper the architecture of the VOM toolkit is presented as well as a simple use-case

Development of an Holistic Operational Management Strategy:

Richard Barton — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:48 +0100

On the strength of over 100 industrial visits during the last 12 months, straight forward observational evidence demonstrates that todayâ€™s successful SMEs are those able to meet the most immediate demands, create profit in the face of variable costs and continually contribute to the long term purpose. However what is not so obvious is how they are achieving it without explicitly knowing what the ideal route for long term sustainability actually is.
This paper considers a variety of potential analysis tools available to managers for the assessment of the fitness of the company, and describes how any one may mislead the well-intentioned company director searching for the next initiative to take their company forward. In response, an integrated systems approach is used to propose a two level holistic operational management strategy (HOMS) to provide a continuous feedback to the operations management decision making process, which in turn feeds into the manufacturing control process, and ensures the long term survival of those SMEs adopting it.

Requirements for a Complex Adaptive Systems Oriented Framework for Enterprise Modelling and Integration

georg.weichhart@profactor.at — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:48 +0100

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Enterprises are collaborating in order to survive in a dynamic and almost hostile business environment. While there is empirical evidence that collaborations provide means for enterprises to improve the economic performances, information and communication technology (ICT) support for such collaborations is limited. This is even more true for dynamic collaborations among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper a conceptual framework is presented, which sees supplier networks (SNs) as complex adaptive systems.

From RADs to Riches? A Pragmatic Approach to New Product Development Process Improvement

yet unknown — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:48 +0100

Work to develop a data model and supporting software to enhance the Role Activity Diagramming notation is described. It is argued that the underlying data model is more important than the graphical process notation chosen as data can be used to provide translations from one notation to another and also to provide interoperability between related software tools. A pragmatic but structured process improvement method is described, and two brief case studies where the approach and software have been used successfully, are given.

Neural Network based model for measuring the effects of total quality management practices on business performance of SMEs.

Korkusuz — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:47 +0100

The principal aim of this study is to determine the impact of total quality management (TQM) on organizational performance of SMEs. Based on theoretical considerations, a model is proposed linking the TQM constructs to the organizational performance construct. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses empirically verified and validated the underlying dimensions of MO, TQM and organizational performance. Neural networks were employed to test the model drawing on a sample of 141 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey. A strong and positive relationship was noted between the level

Semantic Models and Processes for Information Gathering and Interactive Workflow Execution in Decentralized Production Environme

SchlegelIAO — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:47 +0100

More information than needed is available in today's IT-based production environments, while the right information is often hidden or unreachable for humans thanks information overload. The solution of this becomes even more important where rapid reconfiguration and virtual/network enterprises must lead to a decentralized system structure and information architecture. While the machines become increasingly "intelligent" with more powerful processors it has become possible to not only program them mainly via remote control but to deliver detailed status information and sensor data. To date, most of this generated information is wasted in the archives of the machines, only read in case of upcoming machine failures.

Implementation of the OEE rate as a participative improvement tool

jsantos@tecnun.es — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:46 +0100

This paper will demonstrate how technology can go hand-in-hand with the philosophy of Lean Manufacturing through the implementation of the OEE rate (Overall Equipment Efficiency) framed within the philosophy of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance). A case study was carried out in a company which manufactures wood panels used for exterior decoration. During the project a supported system of continuous improvement was implemented and reflected in a productivity report. This report, based on only 5 indicators, was updated before weekly meetings, allowing workers to verify the impact of the improvements they proposed.

HLA based supply chain management for Sakarya automotive suppliers

Uygun — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:46 +0100

Supply chain systems are very typical example for distributed simulation. It requires a huge amount of information to be interacted among all of the elements of the supply chain system. With the increasing importance of computer-based information and communication technologies, distributed simulation and communication frameworks are becoming vital in supply chain management. Since its complexity in nature, traditional simulation techniques are not capable to simulate overall supply chain systems and it is needed to implement distributed simulation frameworks such as high level architecture (HLA).

Integrated design of cellular manufacturing systems including the group scheduling

Mostafa1 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:17:46 +0100

The aim of cellular manufacturing (CM) systems is to group parts that have similar processing needs into part families that meet these needs into machine cells. CM focuses on partitioning a larger manufacturing system, consisting of a set of parts and machines, into smaller subsystems (called manufacturing cells) in order that parts assigned to a manufacturing cell can be either completely or nearly completely processed on machines assigned to the same cell. The noteworthy advantages of creating these subsystems include, reduction in setup time, throughput time and work-in-process inventories, simplified flow of' parts and tools, and centralization of responsibility.