Development of a method for planning and controlling the ramp-up of a factory planning project in the event of reorganisation (rampFAP)

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Matthias Schmidt
• Subject Area: Production Systems, Operations Management, Quality Management and Factory Planning
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 556955398

The aim of the research project is to develop a method for planning and controlling the ramp-up of a factory planning project in the event of reorganization. This should enable factory planners to schedule reorganization projects according to the company's individual possibilities and to ramp them up safely. In this way, the project contributes to securing the competitiveness of factories during critical and practically relevant reorganization projects. The method to be developed consists of guiding principles for the ideal timing of the reorganization project and for defining the ideal ramp-up sequence of the individual subsystems involved in the project as well as the measures to be taken in the event of deviations in order to ensure a safe project ramp-up in line with requirements. The ProactAS control loop described in detail in the application represents the methodological framework in which the guiding principles and measures developed are embedded. This ensures that suitable guiding principles and measures are available to factory planners on a case-by-case basis, thus creating a decision-making support system that can be used to avoid competition-critical overloading of the system due to incorrectly timed reorganizations. In order to realize the project, a fundamental understanding of the ramp-up behavior of different subsystems (e.g. socio-technical or artificially intelligent-technical) must be created, described using suitable models and then aggregated into individual reorganization projects. Based on the aggregated reorganization projects, the influence of the ramp-up on the overall performance (e.g. per week) of the production system must be identified and described. These findings must be transferred into a generic simulation model that can be applied to different production systems on a case-by-case basis. With this basis, a simulation study will be carried out in the further research process in order to define guiding principles and measures.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Co-Investigator: Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Nyhuis