@inproceedings{HippMinhasBerger, author = {Hipp, Christiane and Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {Reconfigurable Strategies to Hammer Open Innovation Concepts into Mass Customized Automobile Manufacturing}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasLehmannStaedteretal., author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Lehmann, Christian and St{\"a}dter, Jost Philipp and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {Reconfigurable Strategies for Manufacturing Setups to confront Mass Customization Challanges}, abstract = {The manufacturing industry is distinguished by regionalization and individualization of products accompaniedby varying customer demands, faster time to market, short innovation cycles and product life cycles. Theintroduction of new materials, new processes as well as struggle to achieve economic and efficient use ofresources has raised complexities to achieve quick and optimal configuration in manufacturing systems. Toresolve the complexities, the reconfiguration at different levels in the manufacturing system is presented byusing three distinct examples. The first example refers to reconfigurable joining cell design for versatile joiningof automotive subassemblies. Second example refers to strategy for quick reconfiguration of robots for precisemachining applications. The third example elaborates fast calibration of monitoring system in joiningprocesses to enable fast reconfiguration of sensors in commissioning as well as in the maintenance.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasLehmannBerger, author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Lehmann, Christian and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {Concept and Development of Intelligent Production Control to enable Versatile Production in the Automotive Factories of the Future}, series = {Glocalized solutions for sustainability in manufacturing, proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Technische Universit{\"a}t Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 2nd - 4th, 2011}, booktitle = {Glocalized solutions for sustainability in manufacturing, proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Technische Universit{\"a}t Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 2nd - 4th, 2011}, editor = {Hesselbach, J{\"u}rgen}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-642-19691-1}, pages = {57 -- 62}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasBerger, author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {A Reconfiguration Concept to enable Versatile Production in the Automotive Factories}, series = {Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability, proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production (CARV2011), Montreal, Canada, 2-5 October 2011}, booktitle = {Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability, proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production (CARV2011), Montreal, Canada, 2-5 October 2011}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-642-23860-4}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-23860-4_58}, pages = {352 -- 357}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasHippBerger, author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Hipp, Christiane and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {Reconfigurable Strategies to Hammer Open Innovation Concepts into the Mass Customized Automobile Manufacturing}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasHalbauerBerger, author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Halbauer, Marcel and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {A Multilevel Reconfiguration Concept to Enable Versatile Production in Distributed Manufacturing}, series = {7th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, (DET 2011), Athens, 28 - 30 September 2011}, booktitle = {7th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, (DET 2011), Athens, 28 - 30 September 2011}, isbn = {978-960-88104-2-6}, abstract = {The manufacturing industry is confronting challenges due to high diversity of product variants,reduced product life cycles,short innovation cycles, faster time to market as well as strictenvironmental regulations. These challenges have persuaded manufacturers to exploit conceptsrelated to open innovation, distributed manufacturing, modular and scalable production systemdesign and eco-efficient production. This paper aims at providing a short review of state of the art inreconfiguration of distributed production systems and focuses on new strategies to resolvecomplexities that arise subsequently. In this regard, a reconfiguration concept based on newstrategic objectives has been proposed to enable customized production. The approach will beimplemented and validated in the collaborative projects.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BergerLebedynskaMinhas, author = {Berger, Ulrich and Lebedynska, Yuliya and Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque}, title = {An approach of a knowledge management system in an automated manufacturing environment}, series = {Automation \& information, theory and advanced technology, proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Automation and Information (ICAI'08), Bucharest, Romania, June 24 - 26, 2008}, booktitle = {Automation \& information, theory and advanced technology, proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Automation and Information (ICAI'08), Bucharest, Romania, June 24 - 26, 2008}, publisher = {WSEAS Press}, address = {Athens}, isbn = {978-960-676677-0}, pages = {566 -- 569}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasKretzschmannVargasetal., author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Kretzschmann, Ralf and Vargas, Veronica and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {An approach for the real time intelligent production control to fulfill mass customization requirements}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BergerNoackMinhas, author = {Berger, Ulrich and Noack, Jan and Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque}, title = {A Comprehensive Concept for the Integration of Smart Heterogeneous Devices}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BergerKretzschmannMinhas, author = {Berger, Ulrich and Kretzschmann, Ralf and Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque}, title = {Hochleistungsf{\"a}hige und realzeitf{\"a}hige Prozesskontrolle f{\"u}r dynamische, robotergest{\"u}tzte F{\"u}geaufgaben}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{MinhasJuzekBerger, author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Juzek, Christian and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {Ontology based Intelligent Assistant System to support Manufacturing activities in a Distributed Manufacturing Environment}, series = {45th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2012, Athens, Greece, 16 - 18 May 2012}, booktitle = {45th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2012, Athens, Greece, 16 - 18 May 2012}, publisher = {Curran}, address = {Red Hook, NY}, isbn = {978-1-62748-512-8}, pages = {215 -- 220}, abstract = {The automotive industry is experiencing several limitations due to high mass customization on product side and the consequent evolution of newer ones as well as the expansion of existing production setups. There exist various complexities in planning and control of istributed production setups. This paper addresses issues related to planning using knowledge management approaches in the decentralized manufacturing domain with two distinct cases. The first case relates to the higher level planning methodology to automate experts' knowledge in production ramp-up whereas the second case relates to optimization of production processes using knowledgebase as an intelligent assistance system for optimization.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasJuzekBergeretal., author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Juzek, Christian and Berger, Ulrich and Lehmann, Christian}, title = {Development of Intelligent Decision Support System Based on Unified Concept for Distributed Manufacturing Planning}, series = {7th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control}, booktitle = {7th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control}, editor = {Bakhtadze, Natalia and Chernyshov, Kirill and Dolgui, Alexandre and Lototsky, Vladimir}, doi = {10.3182/20130619-3-RU-3018.00351}, pages = {454 -- 459}, abstract = {The optimization processes in production planning often encounter problems due to unavailability of skilled workers in the concerned production departments since the decisions made in uncertain situations rely mainly on the knowledge possessed by the relevant planners. This paper further presents and elaborates the unified web-based knowledge based decision support system concept to automate and reuse implicit knowledge generated during interaction with the dedicated software tools as well as during interaction with real hardware setups in an industrial environment. The unified concept has been devised considering two pilot cases i.e. decision making on eco-efficient decentralized production schemes for manufacturing customized products and decision support for solving problems in ramp-up management process. This paper further discusses the development issues concerning web-based knowledge based decision support system to demonstrate the unified concept. The software modules from both pilot cases are validated considering two pilot cases.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{MinhasBerger, author = {Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque and Berger, Ulrich}, title = {Development of Intelligent Assistance System to Support Eco-efficient Planning}, series = {KEOD 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Barcelona, Spain, 4 - 7 October, 2012}, booktitle = {KEOD 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Barcelona, Spain, 4 - 7 October, 2012}, editor = {Filipe, Joaquim and Dietz, Jan L. G.}, isbn = {978-989-8565-30-3}, pages = {331 -- 334}, abstract = {The automotive industry is facing challenges due to high mass customization and consequent decentralization of manufacturing systems. Currently, the evaluation and optimization of eco-efficiency of production processes is complicated due to time consuming LCA simulations and inexperience of production planners to make respective decisions. This paper addresses this issue by developing ontology based intelligent assistance system to support planner in environmental assessment of manufacturing of customized production in decentralized manufacturing networks as well as decision making in production planning.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{LeprattiBergerCreutznacheretal., author = {Lepratti, Raffaello and Berger, Ulrich and Creutznacher, Thomas and Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque}, title = {Dynamic cycle times for adaptive manufacturing control in automotive flow shops}, series = {XXIV International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), October 30 - November 01, 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina}, booktitle = {XXIV International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), October 30 - November 01, 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-4799-0431-0}, pages = {5}, language = {en} }