Situational handling of events for industrial production environments

Industrial production environments are complex, volatile and driven by uncertainties nowadays. Enterprises are striving for flexibility and adaptability to handle these challenges and remain competitive. Market requirements such as shortened product life cycles, increasing number of variants, and customized products lead to complexity in production systems. To be able to handle this complexity, digitalization like the vision of “Industrie 4.0” can offer different solutions. In such complex production settings, decision-making and real-time reactions to events occurring during production processes are one way to handle the challenges. The approach presented here includes a situational handling of events for a manufacturing environment. The exemplary implementation of the method will be carried out by means of a complex Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS) at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV in Augsburg and demonstrated using an example of a mass production for CFRP components