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    Logistics performance improvement and synchronization of material flow and money flow
    ( 2007)
    Mertins, K.
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    Rabe, M.
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    Schallock, B.
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    Weinaug, H.
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    Unique design simulation game for shop floor workers empowerment
    ( 1996)
    Mertins, K.
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    Schallock, B.
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    Heisig, P.
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    Production management software suitable for group work
    ( 1993)
    Mertins, K.
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    Schallock, B.
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    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.
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    Interactive knowledge based shop floor control system
    ( 1990)
    Mertins, K.
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    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.