TY - JOUR

T1 - Competence-based process planning for the workshop production

AU - Denkena, B.

AU - Charlin, F.

AU - Merwart, M.

N1 - Funding information: Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the German Research Foundation in the framework of the project ‘‘Integrated technology-and competence-based work planning in socio-technical systems’’, grant number: DE 447/65-2 and the European Regional Development Fund (EFRE) in the framework of the project ‘‘Use of modern CAx Technologies in SMEs—From the design to the component’’ for the support.

PY - 2013/3/4

Y1 - 2013/3/4

N2 - Today's manufacturing planning methods usually focus on the technical components of a production system. Up to now, a systematic integration of individual skills of the production workers is not further considered, even though it bears high optimization potentials. This is critical especially for knowledge-intensive production processes (e. g. specialized vehicle construction) characterized by a high amount of variable and manual work steps to be performed. Even in such cases the influence of the competencies to the operational targets is not sufficiently taken into account. Against this background, a method has been developed allowing the systematic integration of person-specific competencies for process planning. The method was evaluated with a simulation model of a workshop production. The results illustrate that a systematic competence-enhancing planning leads to additional costs in short-term due to the higher effort for the training of production personnel "on the job". On the other hand, the long-term benefits of a competence-based process planning for workshop production were calculated by a Break-Even-Point. "Economies-of-skills" characterizing the resulting increased flexibility and greater work efficiency of the working personnel could be demonstrated.

AB - Today's manufacturing planning methods usually focus on the technical components of a production system. Up to now, a systematic integration of individual skills of the production workers is not further considered, even though it bears high optimization potentials. This is critical especially for knowledge-intensive production processes (e. g. specialized vehicle construction) characterized by a high amount of variable and manual work steps to be performed. Even in such cases the influence of the competencies to the operational targets is not sufficiently taken into account. Against this background, a method has been developed allowing the systematic integration of person-specific competencies for process planning. The method was evaluated with a simulation model of a workshop production. The results illustrate that a systematic competence-enhancing planning leads to additional costs in short-term due to the higher effort for the training of production personnel "on the job". On the other hand, the long-term benefits of a competence-based process planning for workshop production were calculated by a Break-Even-Point. "Economies-of-skills" characterizing the resulting increased flexibility and greater work efficiency of the working personnel could be demonstrated.

KW - Competence management

KW - Multi-resource-management

KW - Optimization

KW - Process planning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84875632010&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s11740-013-0453-7

DO - 10.1007/s11740-013-0453-7

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84875632010

VL - 7

SP - 299

EP - 308

JO - Production Engineering

JF - Production Engineering

SN - 0944-6524

IS - 2-3

ER -