Robust Manufacturing Control (RoMaC)

Welcome

 

Prof. Dr-Ing. Katja Windt, Professor of Global Production Logistics at Jacobs University, would like to cordially invite scientists and researchers with an interest in Production Planning and Control to the CIRP Sponsored Conference RoMaC 2012. In line with Jacobs University’s emphasis on transdisciplinarity, academics from other disciplines are also welcome to participate and contribute novel ideas focusing on robust manufacturing control.
 
Today, Global Production Networks (i.e. the nexus of interconnected material and information flows through which products and services are manufactured, assembled and distributed) are confronted with and expected to adapt to:
  
  • sudden and unexpectable large-scale changes of important parameters which occur more frequently.
  • event propagation in networks with high degree of interconnectivity which leads to unforeseen fluctuations.
  • non-equilibrium states which increasingly characterize daily business.
 
These multi-scale changes deeply influence logistic target achievement and call for robust planning and control strategies. Therefore, understanding the cause and effects of multi-scale changes in production networks is of major interest. New methodological approaches from different science disciplines are promising to contribute to a new level comprehension of network processes. Unconventional methods from biology, perturbation ecology or auditory display are gaining increasing importance as they are confronted with similar challenges. Advancements from the classical disciplines such as mathematics, physics and engineering are of continuing importance.

Some related arising questions include:

 
  • What are the footprints of successful manufacturing in production networks?
  • What is the influence of network architectures on target achievement?
  • Are decentralized control methods beneficial towards classical methods and to which extend?
  • Are efficient and at the same time robust production networks achievable?
  • Which types of observed parameter fluctuations require non- standard statistical methods?
  • How can we learn from evolved biological systems?
  • Where can we find analogies from other disciplines such as from e.g. auditory display, perturbation ecology, physics ensuring competitive manufacturing in production networks?
  • How to overcome equilibrium thinking?
Date: June 18th (Mon.) - 20th (Wed.), 2012 

Venue: Bremen, Germany 

Hosted by: Jacobs University Bremen, Global Production Logistics Workgroup
 
Call for papers: RoMaC call for papers

This conference is sponsored by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Foundation and supported by the Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH.

 
The research of Katja Windt is supported by the Alfried
Krupp Prize for Young University Teachers of the Alfried
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Foundation.