Methods for implementing compensation strategies in micro production systems supported by a simulation approach

Abstract

Customers demands for highest product quality and lowest product costs and the use of rapidly changing technologies are the challenges for industrial companies. To cope with these challenges production processes need to be more effective. This also applies to the production of innovative micro products. However, the micro production has so far not adopted the advantages of established organization and quality strategies in production systems. Therefore, this article proposes three compensations methods which integrate quality strategies into a micro production system (MPS) with respect to the special needs of producing micro products. The aim is to balance quality errors against each other throughout the production process. This is illustrated by the example of micro assembly. This example uses a simulation approach to show the integration of the afore mentioned compensation methods in combination with a quality strategy. It allows a dynamic view of the effect of balancing errors during the whole production process. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.