TY - GEN

T1 - Hybrid Production Principles: A Framework for the Integration in Aircraft Manufacturing

AU - Wenzel, Alexander

AU - Lucht, Torben

AU - Nyhuis, Peter

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Steady increasing individual customer requirements characterize production processes in aircraft manufacturing. In addition, these production processes are usually marked by rigid cycle times and a lack of flexibility potential. Due to these constraints, the increasing number of variants in flow production leads to considerable efficiency deficits in the form of high utilization losses. Conventional approaches to handle variant diversity within flow lines (e.g. vertical separation of variant-neutral and variant-specific product components) reach their limits with complex products because the low proportion of standardized, variant-neutral components alleviates the actual advantages of line production. Hybrid production principles (HPP), e.g. a flow-line-based production with bypasses to modular workshops, in combination with a production planning and control (PPC) configuration tailored to these principles, offer high logistics and economic potential for multi-variant aircraft manufacturing. A logistics oriented description of the system behaviour of hybrid production principles does not exist yet. However, this is necessary to investigate possible effects on logistics performance depending on the principles applied. Therefore, this paper identifies and describes factors influencing the selection and design of hybrid production principles concerning production organization and the associated intralogistics and PPC. Based on this, a holistic framework for integrating hybrid production principles in future-oriented aircraft manufacturing is presented. In order to handle the resulting complexity, the framework integrates individual components of strategic and operational planning and thus forms the basis for an integrated digital planning approach. The presented framework in this paper has a conceptual character and needs to be verified due to a transfer to a proper application environment. Therefore individual components of the framework (e.g., logistic models) must be developed and transferred in a consistent structure to enable integrated planning and control of HPP.

AB - Steady increasing individual customer requirements characterize production processes in aircraft manufacturing. In addition, these production processes are usually marked by rigid cycle times and a lack of flexibility potential. Due to these constraints, the increasing number of variants in flow production leads to considerable efficiency deficits in the form of high utilization losses. Conventional approaches to handle variant diversity within flow lines (e.g. vertical separation of variant-neutral and variant-specific product components) reach their limits with complex products because the low proportion of standardized, variant-neutral components alleviates the actual advantages of line production. Hybrid production principles (HPP), e.g. a flow-line-based production with bypasses to modular workshops, in combination with a production planning and control (PPC) configuration tailored to these principles, offer high logistics and economic potential for multi-variant aircraft manufacturing. A logistics oriented description of the system behaviour of hybrid production principles does not exist yet. However, this is necessary to investigate possible effects on logistics performance depending on the principles applied. Therefore, this paper identifies and describes factors influencing the selection and design of hybrid production principles concerning production organization and the associated intralogistics and PPC. Based on this, a holistic framework for integrating hybrid production principles in future-oriented aircraft manufacturing is presented. In order to handle the resulting complexity, the framework integrates individual components of strategic and operational planning and thus forms the basis for an integrated digital planning approach. The presented framework in this paper has a conceptual character and needs to be verified due to a transfer to a proper application environment. Therefore individual components of the framework (e.g., logistic models) must be developed and transferred in a consistent structure to enable integrated planning and control of HPP.

KW - Aircraft manufacturing

KW - Hybrid production principles (HPP)

KW - Production planning and control (PPC)

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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-15602-1_67

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-15602-1_67

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-3-031-15601-4

T3 - Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

SP - 957

EP - 967

BT - Smart, Sustainable Manufacturing in an Ever-Changing World

A2 - von Leipzig, Konrad

A2 - Sacks, Natasha

A2 - Mc Clelland, Michelle

PB - Springer International Publishing AG

CY - Cham

ER -