Factory production line as SoS; a case study in airplane engine component manufacturing

Author

Muller, Gerrit ; Andersen, June H.

Author_Institution

HBV-NISE, Kongsberg, Norway

fYear

2015

fDate

17-20 May 2015

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Factories are examples of system of systems with all related problems of integral ownership, lack of overview, emerging properties, and many stakeholders making decisions locally. In the past 7 years, engineers at the GKN Aerospace factory in Kongsberg have been modeling parts of the factory to tackle the complexity of such a facility. In successive papers, they have shown that modeling helps in understanding, reasoning, communication, and decision making. In this paper, we zoom out and describe from a systems of systems perspective the challenges of modeling the system to improve factory level performance indicators, such as inventory levels and production cycle times.

Keywords

aerospace engines; aircraft; decision making; lean production; production engineering computing; production facilities; systems engineering; GKN Aerospace factory; Kongsberg; SoS; airplane engine component manufacturing; decision making; factory level performance indicators; factory production line; integral ownership; inventory levels; production cycle times; systems of systems; Airplanes; Engines; Manufacturing; Modeling; Production facilities; Factory; Manufacturing; Modeling; Systems-of-Systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE), 2015 10th

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYSOSE.2015.7151905

Filename

7151905