Abstract
The importance of flexibility in modern production and manufacturing systems increases in face of a constant rising degree of individualization in manufacturing industry and simultaneously shorter product life cycles. A result is a high number of variants which has to be produced with existing manufacturing systems, namely flow production systems. These are highly efficient for a large number of ideally similar products (cf. modular transverse matrix) which leads to an area of conflict where individualism and high throughput are competing. This chapter presents a new concept for assembling of small batch series with a high number of variants in a smart factory based on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The concept involves a CPS-based semi central production program planning and a decentralized control system. This smart factory is scalable and operates at high flexibility through decentralized control strategies. The presented work describes an extract of the research project SMART FACE (Smart Micro Factory für Elektrofahrzeuge mit schlanker Produktionsplanung) where detailed concepts and prototypical implementations of Industry 4.0 methods and technologies within the application domain of the automotive industry are evaluated.
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