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Due to shorter product life cycles the number of production ramp-ups is increasing, while customers have a soaring demand for more variable and individualized products. In the future, optimizing the production ramp-up will become an important differentiation criterion for companies. Considering the whole supply chain in the ramp-up process becomes therefore indispensable. This is what the presented research in this paper concentrates on. The intention of the research project is to develop a model of a supply chain in the production ramp-up stage. Through this model, approaches for optimizing the production ramp-up in the whole supply chain will be derived.
Further the research project concentrates on measuring the production ramp-up performance in the supply chain, showing the impact on economic and financial measures. The result of this research is an approach to align the tasks and objectives of Supply Chain Management with the tasks and objectives of ramp-up management in order to optimize the whole supply chain in the ramp-up stage.
One of the major tasks of operations managers is to boost uptime while simultaneously keeping budget. To meet this challenge they discover reliability-based management as strategic factor to improve performance. But which parameters are the key to “reliability excellence” and drive a company’s performance? What are the relevant levers to pull in reliability-based management?
To answer these questions McKinsey & Company partnered with Aachen University to launch a global reliability survey in process industries. Objective of the initiative is to provide a statistically proven picture of key factors that drive maintenance and reliability excellence. Furthermore benchmarks and best practices concerning overall operational performance will be identified. The study is based on a questionnaire-based approach which addresses all relevant departments within a company, complemented by best practice analyses.
This paper provides results of the survey. The results demonstrate that reliability pays off. Some unproven beliefs have been confirmed (e.g. a good reliability performance results in a low spare part inventory) but also surprises like a correlation between safety and performance were identified. The analysis also shows that structural differences like company size or geography do not influence reliability performance.
The Aim of this article is to provide a framework which enhances the existing scope of manufacturing asset management by specifically addressing industrial services provided by external suppliers as an integral part of today’s manufacturing structures. Existing research shows that sourcing industrial services from specialized service organizations establishes complex and unique interdependencies and links total production efficiency to the performance of the external service suppliers. Within the context of the EU-Project InCoCo-S - “Innovation, Coordination and Collaboration in Service Driven Manufacturing Supply Chains” a standard business reference model with key focus on operation and integration of business related services (BRS) in the supply chain has been developed. Based on the service type retrofit this paper aims on the one hand to present the modules of the reference model and on the other hand to explain how the model can be used to enhance the retrofit business.
Outsourcing of logistics operations (especially transportation, distribution & warehousing) is one of the most viable options exercised by the customers to excel in their logistic operations. Despite the growing outsourcing of logistics services to 3PL providers, both the service providers & their customers are facing tremendous problems in synchronizing the business processes & analyzing the performance using common key performance indicators. There is a huge demand for an integrated approach to help 3PL and their customers better synchronize their business processes and have common goals & perspectives. Such integrated approaches often take shape of a process oriented reference model covering many diverse aspects related to the operations & controlling of any business. In this paper, an integrated reference model to support 3PL service operations is presented. The Logistics Reference Model (LRM) developed & validated in some 3PL service companies encompasses standard business processes, performance measurement system and best practices.
In most European countries a structural change from a production dominated towards a service oriented society is progressing. Companies increasingly consider services as means to gain competitive advantages in a global competition. In order to provide holistic, value-adding solutions while simultaneously guaranteeing high quality standards, production companies increasingly join forces with external services‘ providers. Models, methods and tools for service development are rare and in most cases immature. In the context of virtual services‘ development this leads to a dual set of simultaneous chal-lenges: an alignment of systematic services‘ and product development and the coordination of distributed R&D partners. The objective is to provide a meta-process that identifies all steps and decision points necessary to successfully develop innovative services. It is a result of combined service development and virtual enterprises‘/ networks‘ research.