Proceedings of ICLT 2013
Application of ramp-up management methods for job production
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Henning Strubelt; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Zadek
Institute of Logistics and Material Handling Systems, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany; Institute of Logistics and Material Handling Systems, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
International Conference on Logistics & Transport 2013, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 92-99
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Abstract
Ramp-up management is a management approach that is both well-known and frequently applied in series production. Its application to job production appears promising, but has not been researched so far. This research paper discusses the possibilities of ramp-up management methods for job production and presents the current state of application, combining a theoretical approach with the practitioners‘ view. Special focus is placed on supplier management as logistics-related management method. An overview of the most important and most effective methods as well as their specific application fields is provided. Furthermore, a ranking in which order the researched methods should be implemented and general advice on the implementation of ramp-up management methods is given. Ramp-up Management For all series producers, the necessity for innovation has marked the past two decades, as well as an orientation on customer demands and the shortening of product life cycles. This has led to increasing numbers of production ramp-ups for series producers. (cf. Voigt and Thiell, 2005, p. 11) The automotive industry was especially affected by this development with a dramatic increase in the number of ramp-ups over the past years, cf. Figure 1. Figure 1: Increasing no. of ramp-ups at Daimler (cf. Romberg and Haas, 2005, p. 11) The accompanying shortening of the product life cycle becomes especially apparent in the automotive industry as well, where in the 1980s the product life cycle averaged a
Keywords
logistics; port; demand; import; automotive
Citation
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Henning Strubelt; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Zadek (2013). Application of ramp-up management methods for job production. Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics & Transport (ICLT 2013), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 92-99.