Visible to the public A Coordination Artifact for Multi-disciplinary Reuse in Production Systems Engineering

TitleA Coordination Artifact for Multi-disciplinary Reuse in Production Systems Engineering
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsMeixner, Kristof, Musil, Jürgen, Lüder, Arndt, Winkler, Dietmar, Biffl, Stefan
Conference Name2022 IEEE 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
Keywordscomposability, compositionality, Computers, Industry 4.0 component, Information Reuse, Knowledge engineering, Manufacturing, Organizations, Production systems, Production Systems Engineering, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, reuse, Robot kinematics, security, VDI 3695-3
AbstractIn Production System Engineering (PSE), domain experts from different disciplines reuse assets such as products, production processes, and resources. Therefore, PSE organizations aim at establishing reuse across engineering disciplines. However, the coordination of multi-disciplinary reuse tasks, e.g., the re-validation of related assets after changes, is hampered by the coarse-grained representation of tasks and by scattered, heterogeneous domain knowledge. This paper introduces the Multi-disciplinary Reuse Coordination (MRC) artifact to improve task management for multi-disciplinary reuse. For assets and their properties, the MRC artifact describes sub-tasks with progress and result states to provide references for detailed reuse task management across engineering disciplines. In a feasibility study on a typical robot cell in automotive manufacturing, we investigate the effectiveness of task management with the MRC artifact compared to traditional approaches. Results indicate that the MRC artifact is feasible and provides effective capabilities for coordinating multi-disciplinary re-validation after changes.
DOI10.1109/ETFA52439.2022.9921586
Citation Keymeixner_coordination_2022