TY - CHAP A1 - Hermann, Mandy A1 - Tinello, Daniel A1 - Winkler, Herwig T1 - Bio-inspired factory layouts: a morphological approach for investigating design criteria T2 - 24th International Conference on Production Research (ICPR 2017) KW - Bio-inspired factory layout KW - material flow KW - efficiency KW - flexibility KW - morphological analysis Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-60595-507-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.12783/dtetr/icpr2017/17631 SP - 330 EP - 335 PB - DEStech Publications CY - Lancaster, Pennsylvania ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hermann, Mandy A1 - Winkler, Herwig A1 - Tinello, Daniel T1 - Elaboration and analysis of key figure-based approaches for the efficiency assessment of traditional and bio-inspired factory layouts T2 - Procedia CIRP N2 - Most factory layouts based on stable markets. Companies usually do not consider further development or growth processes, which leads to inefficiencies. Literature reviews have shown, that living systems have the ability to efficiently and flexibly cope with short- and long-term changes. Consequently, this paper shows firstly, as an overview of own studies, new efficient approaches as examples for factory and material flow planning, using biomimetics. Secondly and as the focus of the paper, approaches for the efficiency measurement and assessment are analyzed and examined for their suitability to the context of different factory layouts and their material flows. Based on these results, traditional and bio-inspired factory layouts should be comparable in terms of their efficiency figures. KW - Logistics KW - Factory KW - Analysis KW - Efficiency Assessment Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.052 VL - 72 SP - 732 EP - 738 ER -