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Learning Factory for Industry 4.0 to provide future skills beyond technical training

2018 , Schallock, Burkhard , Rybski, Christoffer , Jochem, Roland , Kohl, Holger

The paper will describe the design of a learning factory for Industry 4.0 that addresses the growing demand for future skills of production staff. Existing learning factories often focus on the technical skills whereas this learning factory also trains decision making, group work and performance monitoring skills. The paper refers to the existing categorizes of learning factories and unveils its numerous features. The conceptual design includes theoretical and practical parts, which prove to be successful in a German learning factory that was realized by the authors. Especially, for the industry 4.0 environment, the layout consists of three stages of a production system, from manual to automatized manufacturing. The practical tasks cover the introduction of smart devices, connection of information flows as well as monitoring of performance. The didactical design of the training program provides a sustainable approach by not only realizing training courses but also includes preparation with management, mid-term coaching and success monitoring after the training. The learning factory is a part of a whole research institute for intelligent manufacturing in China including consultancy and application support. One of the underlying goals of the learning factory is to enable production staff for change management, decision making and innovation.

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Global Quality Management - Developing a Model for the Implementation of a Global Quality Management System

2013 , Meentken, Felix , Jochem, Roland

Nowadays Total Quality Management (TQM) as an integrated Management philosophy must face new challenges for globally oriented enterprises. The complexity growth has its impact not only on products and processes, but also on the integration of other cultures. The objective of a global TQM system is to create and establish global standards and values. So far, enterprises focused on local process optimization, which led to growth of the organizational complexity and, unfortunately, loss of the complete overview. Due to an integrated process orientation across sites and different borders a first important step can be done to define and implement global standards. Next to the implementation of consistent high quality standards, such a management system enables an efficient integration and certi fication of purchased companies and new sites. A significant challenge in the heterogeneity of the value chain is the definition of an appropriate level of Detail where global standards are mandatory and at which level local adaptions can be realized to assure local flexibility and improvement. For this purpose a model is developed in close cooperation with an industrial partner.

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Integrated and modular design of an optimized process architecture

2013 , Raßfeld, Colin , Rößle, Dominik , Jochem, Roland

Global economic integration increased the complexity of business activities, so organizations are forced to become more efficient each day. Process organization is a very useful way of aligning organizational systems towards business processes. However, an organization must do more than just focus its attention and efforts on processes. The layout design has also a significant impact on the system performance. We contribute to this field by developing a tailored process-oriented organizational structure and new layout design for the quality assurance of a leading German automotive manufacturer. The target concept we developed was evaluated by process owners and an IT-based process simulation. Our results provide solid empirical back-up in which the performance and effects are assesse d from a qualitative and quantitative perspective.

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Objectives and Barriers for the Implementation of Energy Management Systems in Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany: Results of an Empirical Investigation

2013 , Jochem, Roland , Karcher, Phillip , Siemer, Markus

This paper introduces and examines objectives and barriers that occur during the implementation of an energy management system (EnMS). It thereby presents the results of an empirical investigation regarding manufacturing enterprises in Germany conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK. It further focuses on the context of German legislature and public facilitation made to promote energy efficiency. The results shall give recommendations where promotions made to energy efficiency should be aimed at and what potentials for improvement exist.

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