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Restructuring of value chains from high in-house production to average level and tackling the increasing supply chain management tasks - a typical challenge for Russian industry

2009 , Mertins, K. , Schallock, B.

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Evolutions and perspectives of production management philosophies

1996 , Mertins, K. , Schallock, B.

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Interactive knowledge based shop floor control system

1990 , Mertins, K. , Schallock, B.

To meet the market requirements for more flexibility and a quicker response the order planning and control decisions have to be revised more often than in the past. MRP II systems can not follow the big number of shop floor events. Therefore an advanced shop floor control system was developed that supports supervisors in making short term production decisions using company wide and individual information and rules. Case studies proved that a large subset of rules can be delivered to any customer. The system runs on UNIX hardware using the TWAICE expert system shell and suits big and small companies. Within the internal architecture a task coordinator integrates steps of conventional Shop Floor Control (SFC), of knowledge based (KB) consultations, simulation, and user interaction.

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Logistics performance improvement and synchronization of material flow and money flow

2007 , Mertins, K. , Rabe, M. , Schallock, B. , Weinaug, H.

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Unique design simulation game for shop floor workers empowerment

1996 , Mertins, K. , Schallock, B. , Heisig, P.

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Skill enhancing control systems for European SMEs

1988 , Schallock, B.

Die Stärken von Klein- und Mittelbetrieben liegen in einem flexbilen Reaktionsvermögen und einem hohen Qualifikationsstand der Mitarbeiter. Marktforderungen nach verkürzten Liefer- und Entwicklungszeiten können oft nur mit Rechnerunterstützung erfüllt werden, wobei die im Aufsatz beschriebene dezentrale Werkstattsteuerung ein geeigneter Ansatz sein kann. Angestrebt wird eine Produktionsstruktur, bei der für Werkstattmitarbeiter disponierende und verwaltende (Werkzeuge, Material, Kosten) Funktionen vorgesehen sind. Unterstützend gibt es Qualifizierungsmethoden und Planungsmethoden zur Gestaltung dezentraler Produktionsstrukturen. (IPK)

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Supply Chain Management in regional networks by third party services

2006 , Mertins, K. , Schallock, B.

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Production management software suitable for group work

1993 , Mertins, K. , Schallock, B. , Carbon, M.

Group work on shop floor level gains an increasing importance, because it enables better usage of capacities, mutual help in difficult situations and mutual learning support. Higher customer orientation causes more unpredicted situations that increasingly demand decentralized short term decision making. Principles of wholistic tasks, of flat hierarchies with distributed responsibilities and latest research about gaining and use of experience at shop floor level form an approach of cooperative an coordinated decision making. The task of scheduling is seen as a task that requires much joint decision making within a group, as well as a high degree of coordination with remote departments. The proposed approach postulates enhanced functionality of shop floor control software (SFC), hardware that enables joint decision making (whiteboard architecture) for groups and interacting networking software that allows to use company wide data and software applications of other departments.