TY - CHAP A1 - Hipp, Christiane A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - Reconfigurable Strategies to Hammer Open Innovation Concepts into Mass Customized Automobile Manufacturing Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Lehmann, Christian A1 - Städter, Jost Philipp A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - Reconfigurable Strategies for Manufacturing Setups to confront Mass Customization Challanges N2 - 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. KW - Reconfigurable manufacturing cell KW - plug and produce KW - one-of-a-kind Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Lehmann, Christian A1 - Berger, Ulrich ED - Hesselbach, Jürgen T1 - Concept and Development of Intelligent Production Control to enable Versatile Production in the Automotive Factories of the Future T2 - Glocalized solutions for sustainability in manufacturing, proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 2nd - 4th, 2011 Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-3-642-19691-1 SP - 57 EP - 62 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Kretzschmann, Ralf A1 - Vargas, Veronica A1 - Noack, Jan ED - Mieke, Christian ED - Behrens, Stefan T1 - Intelligent strategies for resolving complexities in mass customized production environment N2 - Produktionswissenschaft sowie Technologie- und Innovationsforschung sind sehr dynamische Gebiete. Sie setzen sich mit den Forderungen nach robusten und wandlungsfähigen Produktionssystemen sowie innovativen Technologien auseinander, schaffen theoretische Modelle und praxistaugliche Instrumente zur Entscheidungsunterstützung in einem dynamischen, internationalen und zunehmend vernetzten Umfeld. Das Buch beinhaltet Beiträge namhafter Autoren, gibt einen Überblick zum aktuellen Forschungsstand und würdigt als Festschrift für Professor Dieter Specht dessen interdisziplinär angelegtes wissenschaftliches Wirken. Der Band versammelt unter anderen Beiträge von Daniel Baier, Klaus Bellmann, Ulrich Berger, Udo Buscher, Jörg M. Elsenbach, Wolf Fichtner, Joachim Fischer, Jürgen Gausemeier, Georg Gemünden, Torsten J. Gerpott, Horst Geschka, Uwe Götze, Diana Grosse, Andreas Größler, Evi Hartmann, Hans H. Hinterhuber, Christopher Jahns, Bernd Kaluza, Joachim Käschel, Wolfgang Kersten, Klaus-Peter Kistner, Bernd Kortschak, Herbert Kotzab, Rudolf O. Large, Peter Lethmathe, Peter Loos, Horst Meier, Barbara Mikus, Peter Milling, Magdalena Mißler-Behr, Martin G. Möhrle, Theodor Nebl, Joachim Reese, Bernd Rieper, Gerhard Schewe, Hans-Horst Schröder, Günther Seliger, Marion Steven, Oliver Thomas, Meike Tilebein, Bernd Viehweger, Kai-Ingo Voigt, Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl, Horst Wildemann, Herwig Winkler, Stephan Zelewski. Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vargas, Veronica A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Lebedynska, Yuliya A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - Enhancing Productivity through Integrated Intelligent Methodology in Automated Production Environment Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - A Reconfiguration Concept to enable Versatile Production in the Automotive Factories T2 - 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 Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-3-642-23860-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23860-4_58 SP - 352 EP - 357 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Hipp, Christiane A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - Reconfigurable Strategies to Hammer Open Innovation Concepts into the Mass Customized Automobile Manufacturing KW - Open Innovation KW - Mass Customization Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Halbauer, Marcel A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - A Multilevel Reconfiguration Concept to Enable Versatile Production in Distributed Manufacturing T2 - 7th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, (DET 2011), Athens, 28 - 30 September 2011 N2 - 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. KW - Optimization Module KW - Plug and Produce KW - Smart Robot Tooling Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-960-88104-2-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Kretzschmann, Ralf A1 - Arnold, Klaus-Peter A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque T1 - Approach for the Development o a heuristic Process Planning Tool for Sequencing NC Machining Operations Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Lebedynska, Yuliya A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque T1 - An approach of a knowledge management system in an automated manufacturing environment T2 - 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 Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-960-676677-0 SP - 566 EP - 569 PB - WSEAS Press CY - Athens ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Kretzschmann, Ralf A1 - Vargas, Veronica A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - An approach for the real time intelligent production control to fulfill mass customization requirements Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Noack, Jan A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque T1 - A Comprehensive Concept for the Integration of Smart Heterogeneous Devices Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Kretzschmann, Ralf A1 - Vargas, Veronica A1 - Berger, Ulrich ED - Piller, F. T. ED - Tseng, M. M. T1 - Mass Customization Responsive Automated Assembly Cells Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Kretzschmann, Ralf A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque T1 - Hochleistungsfähige und realzeitfähige Prozesskontrolle für dynamische, robotergestützte Fügeaufgaben Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Lebedynska, Yuliya A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque T1 - Incorporating Intelligence and development of knowledge acquisition system in an automated manufacturing environment T2 - International Journal of Systems Applications, Engineering & Development N2 - This paper focuses on the systematic methodology for incorporating intelligence and development methodology for knowledge acquisition system in an automated manufacturing environment. The intelligence is incorporated in the shape of technology data catalogue that contains the knowledge about production system as a whole. The knowledge acquisition system is implemented in the form of a multiuser scalable interface into remote human machine interface devices (e.g. Personal Digital Assistants) with a purpose of extracting concrete and precise information and knowledge about manufacturing systems and processes in highly automated manufacturing environment. The extraction of precise knowledge as well as organized access to the knowledge will facilitates the operators, technicians and engineers for making faster, safer and simpler on-process modifications and parameters optimization. KW - knowledge acquisition system Y1 - 2008 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 58 EP - 65 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Juzek, Christian A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - Ontology based Intelligent Assistant System to support Manufacturing activities in a Distributed Manufacturing Environment T2 - 45th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2012, Athens, Greece, 16 - 18 May 2012 N2 - 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. KW - Ramp-up, Knowledge management, Knowledge manager Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-1-62748-512-8 SP - 215 EP - 220 PB - Curran CY - Red Hook, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Juzek, Christian A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Lehmann, Christian ED - Bakhtadze, Natalia ED - Chernyshov, Kirill ED - Dolgui, Alexandre ED - Lototsky, Vladimir T1 - Development of Intelligent Decision Support System Based on Unified Concept for Distributed Manufacturing Planning T2 - 7th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control N2 - 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. KW - Knowledge management in production; Mass customization Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3182/20130619-3-RU-3018.00351 SP - 454 EP - 459 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Berger, Ulrich ED - Filipe, Joaquim ED - Dietz, Jan L. G. T1 - Development of Intelligent Assistance System to Support Eco-efficient Planning T2 - KEOD 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Barcelona, Spain, 4 - 7 October, 2012 N2 - 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. KW - Production Scheme, Knowledge management, Knowledge repository, Environmental impact Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-989-8565-30-3 SP - 331 EP - 334 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Kretzschmann, Ralf A1 - Vargas, Veronica A1 - Berger, Ulrich ED - Edwards, Kasper ED - Blecker, Thorsten ED - Salvador, Fabrizio ED - Hvam, Lars ED - Friedrich, Gerhard T1 - An approach for the real time intelligent production control to fulfill mass customization requirements T2 - Mass Customization Services N2 - The automotive industry is distinguished by regionalization and mass customization of products. As a consequence, the diversity of products will increase and the lot sizes will decrease. Thus more product types have to be handled along the process chain and common production paradigms will fail. Hence, Rapid Manufacturing (RM) will be used for manufacturing small individual lot sizes. Nevertheless, new solution for joining and assembling these components are needed. The state of the art production control solutions exhibit several disadvantages while responding mass customization. A comprehensive and real time intelligent production control and monitoring system can overcome these limitations which will be the totality of intelligent production control and will be based on intelligent soft computing algorithms and smart intelligent peripheral devices. The concept is based on three interlinked main modules: a technology data catalogue (TDC) to access, share, process and structure relevant engineering data, an automated scheduling processor (ASP) based on graph theory to get an optimized and adaptable work plan using feature technology and a central programmable automation controller (PAC) for real-time sensor/actor communication. The processes will be controlled through PAC and influenced by humans through scalable human machine interfaces. The PAC and its supported software’s widespread functionality for real time applications and compatibility and flexibility with the conventional programming languages will enable in developing customized palette of functions and tools for scalable level of control solutions. It will have a widespread accessibility as it will influence the execution of robot programs after pre-processing the data coming from various peripheral devices and calculating new robot paths by segmentation of detected curves and paths corresponding to the process planning information via one interface. The human machine communication will be based on the ontological approach as a natural language interaction system for filtering and translating into machine command. The entire concept will be demonstrated in a laboratory set-up with distinct machining, assembly and joining processes and will be experimentally validated in European research and development projects. KW - Intelligent Production Control, Knowledge Driven System, Human Machine Interface, Dynamic Navigation, Technology Data Catalogue, Ontology, Mass Customization Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-87-90-855-12-3 SP - 86 EP - 101 PB - Vesterkopi Copenhagen Denmark CY - Copenhagen, Denmark ER - TY - GEN A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Juzek, Christian A1 - Berger, Ulrich ED - Chryssolouris, George ED - Mourtzis, Dimitris T1 - Ontology Based Intelligent Assistance System to Support Manufacturing Activities in a Distributed Manufacturing Environment T2 - Procedia CIRP N2 - 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 distributed 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. KW - Ramp-up; Knowledge management; Knowledge manager Y1 - 2012 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212827112002107 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2012.07.038 SN - 2212-8271 N1 - 45th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2012 VL - 1 IS - 3 SP - 215 EP - 220 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Juzek, Christian A1 - Berger, Ulrich T1 - Elicitation of Requirements for a Knowledge Management Concept in Decentralized Production Planning T2 - Special Journal Issue of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology N2 - The planning in manufacturing system is becoming complicated day by day due to the expanding networks and shortage of skilled people to manage change. Consequently, faster lead time and rising demands for eco-efficient evaluation of manufacturing products and processes need exploitation of new and intelligent knowledge management concepts for manufacturing planning. This paper highlights motivation for incorporation of new features in the manufacturing planning system. Furthermore, it elaborates requirements for the development of intelligent knowledge management concept to support planning related decisions. Afterwards, the derived concept is presented in this paper considering two case studies. The first case study is concerned with the automotive ramp-up planning. The second case study specifies requirements for knowledge management system to support decisions in eco-efficient evaluation of manufacturing products and processes. KW - Ramp-up, Environmental impact, Knowledge management Y1 - 2013 UR - http://c.waset.org/Publications?p=81 SN - 2010-3778 VL - 2012 IS - 81 SP - 617 EP - 626 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lepratti, Raffaello A1 - Berger, Ulrich A1 - Creutznacher, Thomas A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque T1 - Dynamic cycle times for adaptive manufacturing control in automotive flow shops T2 - XXIV International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), October 30 - November 01, 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-1-4799-0431-0 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, NJ ER -