GRK 1491: Ramp-Up Management - Development of Decision Models for the Production Ramp-Up

对于工业企业，特别是汽车供应行业来说，产量提升是一个关键因素，因为根据技术能力和竞争力的全球同化，产品发布的正确时间和低资源分配将是未来企业差异化的重要标准。从计划的虚拟世界到现实世界的过渡发生在爬坡阶段。在这个阶段，必须在非常紧迫的时间内做出许多具有巨大影响的决定。由于整个系统的高度复杂性，今天错误的决策很多，因为高度相互依赖和高时间压力，对整个系统的影响无法考虑。根据这些事实，研究训练组的目标是通过一个全面的、跨学科的解释模型来弥补目前在处理生产加速方面的决策理论缺陷。该决策模型将为博士生的科学专业知识提供依据，并为企业定位提供工具，以架起教学、科研和产业实践之间的桥梁。在爬坡过程中决策的目标系统代表了工程学和经济学之间的接口。一方面，技术系统，另一方面，人类和组织对这种复杂系统的控制态度将被考虑。因此，跨学科处理的主题物流，商业经济和生产工程是必要的。关于决策品质提升的个别问题，将由博士生运用不同学科的不同视角来回答。因此，这些专题的解决方案组成部分将是跨学科的，并涉及相邻地区的相互依存关系，以便实现解决问题的整体方法。乌尔里希的系统理论方法通常是所有方法的基础。此外，随附的学习计划将促进博士生的内容能力和研究方法能力。研究培训小组将扩展亚琛工业大学生产工程的主要重点，并加强各部门之间的跨学科合作。

For industrial enterprises and especially for the automotive supplying industry the production ramp-up represents a critical factor, since according to the global assimilation of technical abilities and competences the product launch to the correct time and meanwhile low assignment of resources will be an important differentiation criteria for enterprises in the future. The transition from the planned, virtual world to the real world occurs in the ramp-up phase. In this phase extraordinary many decisions with huge consequences have to be made under a high time pressure. Due to the high complexity of the overall system wrong decisions are numerous today, because for the high interdependence and the high time pressure the effects on the overall system cannot be considered. According to these facts the objective of the Research Training Group is to meet present decision-theoretical deficits in handling the production ramp-up by means of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary explanation model. The decision model will provide a basis for the scientific expertise of the PhD students as well as a device for the orientation of enterprises in order to bridge between teaching, research and industrial practice. The target systems of decision making during the ramp-up process represents the interface between engineering and economics. On the one hand, technological systems and, on the other hand, humans´ and organisations´ attitude to the control of such complex systems will be considered. Thus an interdisciplinary handling of the topics logistic, business economics and production engineering is necessary. The individual questions concerning the improvement of decision quality will be answered by the PhD students by using different perspectives of the different disciplines. Thus solution components of the topics will be developed interdisciplinary and concerning the interdependencies of adjoining areas in order to achieve a holistic method of resolution. The system-theoretical approach according to Ulrich will commonly underlie every approach. Further on, the accompanying study programme will promote both the competences of the contents and the research methodical competences of the PhD students. The Research Training Group will extend the main focus production engineering at the RWTH Aachen and strengthen the interdisciplinary cooperation between the departments.