Time synchronized material supply of large scale products

Since the assembly of large-scale products is strongly influenced by the customer, the products have an unique character. Contract manufacturing is characterized by a low level of standardization and a high share of non-value adding activities with negative effects on throughput times and on-time delivery. In the research project SySMaG the IPS (Dortmund) therefore developed a planning framework to standardize the material supply in large scale assembly and to reduce non-value adding activities