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Papers by Hermann Kühnle

[[abstract]]Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a knowledge value creation model to... more [[abstract]]Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a knowledge value creation model to evaluate and interpret knowledge conversion effects and knowledge value creation for knowledge-intensive procurement projects. Design/methodology/approach – To depict the knowledge-conversion processes and knowledge value creation, two portions are undertaken in the model: quantifying the success of every knowledge conversion; and analyzing and interpreting effects on each conversion process and the entire procurement project. A case study for the model implementation is provided. Findings – In the case study, four factors of “performance improvement,” “project learning,” “project comprehension,” and “project value” cover the importance from knowledge workers’ perception. However, attitudes of indirect knowledge workers toward instant project learning are not as aggressive as those of the direct project workers. Originality/value – Systematic thinking based on knowledge management (KM) is required in order to feasibly and efficiently manage and program procurement projects which might involve buyer-supplier knowledge communication. For the knowledge-intensive projects, a systematic approach to the treatment of knowledge transfer assessment is also able for organizations to encode knowledge and knowledge value into supplier relationship management (SRM) and KM information systems. The proposed model is not only the first attempt to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate knowledge conversion incorporated within KM but also contributes to the literature on SRM of assessing the performance of procurement projects

Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb

Production-Planning and Control Systems do not support the goals of short lead-times and low hold... more Production-Planning and Control Systems do not support the goals of short lead-times and low holding cost efficiently.Therefore for flow-shop production a conzept is given, that respects these goals.

Giesserei-Erfahrungsaustausch, 1999

2008 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2008

European industry is within a drastic change implementing architecture combining mass customisati... more European industry is within a drastic change implementing architecture combining mass customisation and lot size one benefits. Therefore, the requirement number one is flexibility. Within this paper an overall concept for manufacturing system improvement developed within the EC project PABADIS'PROMISE is described facing this requirement and providing a new control structure solution composed of several autonomous entities allowing a self-organising production. The reachable variance of producible products within this manufacturing system concept will be limited only by the possibilities of combining manufacturing steps programmed and performed by autonomous entities. In parallel to the consideration of flexibility, increased efficiency is enabled by scheduling mechanisms involving all system entities and autonomy is supported by hardware supporting mobility and powerful connectivity in the physical sense. An important aspect for realisation of the described features is the use ...

Wissenschaftliche Beiträge / Technische Hochschule Wildau

2006 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2006

On the Control of Production Networks (PN) numerous research projects and activities have been in... more On the Control of Production Networks (PN) numerous research projects and activities have been initiated. There is a general regret about lacking theoretical backgrounds for the development of resulting methods and instruments. The interpretation of Production Networks as generalised topological structures allows generating a theory design, putting relevant models on a common base. In order to demonstrate the power of the approach, the planning and control problem is tackled. Employing the Self Similarity principle, the solution conjecture is valid for the organisation issues as well as the process control. It can be shown that human decision making and software agent negotiations, self similarly based on the same models, may provide simple solution procedures. The approach is motivated by fractal organisation experiences, complexity theory and topology. Diverse planning and control problem aspects and/or sub-problems are covered by sets of models constituting model systems, progressively generating solutions by network units' adaptations. The paper intends to contribute to the production systems theory's extension to the field of production networks.

Proceedings First International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 1999

Network-Centric Collaboration and Supporting Frameworks

2010 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2010

New paradigms such as Open Innovation and User Centred Design as well as User Centred Open Innova... more New paradigms such as Open Innovation and User Centred Design as well as User Centred Open Innovation Ecosystem promote a distributed collaboration approach. However, a number of identified distances abundantly described in the literature, raise collaboration barriers which affect the effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration. This paper presents the results and discusses the findings of a survey on collaboration barriers, built from a list of collaboration distance factors, which was conducted from June 2007 to June 2008. It also explores the role of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) and collaboration tools in creating, compressing or bridging collaborative distances and raising or overcoming related collaboration barriers.

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2014

Computing miniaturization and smart devices rapidly change manufacturing. Decentralization and at... more Computing miniaturization and smart devices rapidly change manufacturing. Decentralization and atomisation of resources uncover novel manufacturing behaviour. Virtual representations of units, processes and resources enforce unaccustomed network principles with strategic impact and irrefutable implications on manufacturing. Eventually manufacturing in total might have to be reconsidered. Distributed manufacturing, largely engaging interacting intelligent manufacturing units and decentralized planning, may be regarded as the manufacturing future. Gradually evolving decision procedures clearly illustrate important effects of irreversible shifts of focus towards units' collaboration and interoperability.

2005 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2005

... Driven Architecture MDA [Almeida e.al. 2004] and Convergent Architecture CA [Hubbert 2002]. I... more ... Driven Architecture MDA [Almeida e.al. 2004] and Convergent Architecture CA [Hubbert 2002]. It reduces to the main business objects (Organisation, Process, Resource) necessary to describe an entire enterprise. Production systems design is also related to HSS and PMI ...

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005

PABADIS'PROMISE (PABADIS based Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems for Re-Configurable Ent... more PABADIS'PROMISE (PABADIS based Product Oriented Manufacturing Systems for Re-Configurable Enterprises) is a new European research project aiming at the improvement of the flexibility of manufacturing systems by extending the applicability of distributed intelligence at all levels of control. This paper introduces the basis ideas of the concept and describes details of the technological and conceptual approach. After a short comparison

Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2012

PurposeScientific progress in a field is mostly discussed within disciplines. Far less attention ... more PurposeScientific progress in a field is mostly discussed within disciplines. Far less attention is paid to outside or between disciplines' work. To speed up research progresses for collaborative networks (CN) in manufacturing, a base for further grounded theory establishment is propagated, recalling some of the most relevant chapters of philosophy of science. The focus is put onto the roles of disciplines and their scholars involved in interdisciplinary contexts, in order to further motivate as well as to hint at a number of catalysing forces and fruitful impacts of outside disciplines' work.Design/methodology/approachThe intentions of this Special Issue are mirrored to important and well‐accepted findings in the philosophy of science. All papers that are included in this journal issue are positioned within a general framework of scientific disciplines and theory building understanding.FindingsInterdisciplinary work is speeding up theory building and innovation in CNs in ge...

Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb

Giesserei-Erfahrungsaustausch, 1999

2008 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2008

Wissenschaftliche Beiträge / Technische Hochschule Wildau

2006 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2006

Proceedings First International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 1999

Network-Centric Collaboration and Supporting Frameworks

2010 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2010

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2014

2005 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE), 2005

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005

Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 2012

The subsequent examples draw from pilot implementations of smart control of rolling mill processe... more The subsequent examples draw from pilot implementations of smart control of rolling mill processes, drop forge and crankshaft manufacturing, and of direct RFID item identification along comprehensive distributed supply, manufacturing and delivery processes. The shift towards event-based or even real time views in synthesis with precise item localisation data reveals so far unseen potential for improving manufacturing management by new ways of decision support. Especially the far advanced rolling mill cases highlight the importance of hybrid decision-making, an interactive men-machine decision finding procedure. This kind of decisions could be important for future smart factory setups as well as for conversion phases, where only parts of the equipment display smart properties, i.e. evidently less mature shopfloors in our terminology. For planning and decision in manufacturing, for operations and facilities planning these game changers even shake up philosophies and shift the priorities in modelling. Whereas conventional planning strongly prioritises processes plans and geometries of objects (machines, buildings, equipment) as decision parameters, now exact positioning and online tracking possibilities highlight real time monitoring and event-based decision-making. Online updates of all data and models, used for planning become possible everywhere and around the clock; 1 the real-time enterprise RTE steadily enters the scene. Installations of adequate systems in manufacturing areas strongly rely on the vast possibilities of capturing data via RFID, NFC or comparable sensors and actuators. Of course all models of products and processes as well as the decision support systems and logics may be installed and provided via cloud. Such novel management philosophy of orchestrating rather than planning is not yet prevailing in companies and may collide with existing routines. The power real-time management however instantly reveals so far unseen improvements and efficiency indicators, so inconveniences should be rapidly overcome by harmonising methods. Implementing respective procedures will certainly induce many installations of RFID data capturing and important investments for smartening up machine units. The examples are basically chosen from several network levels of detail, as exactly the implementation of breakdowns and fold of network mechanisms and decisions is bound to bring up tremendous potential as soon as the respective fold/unfold logics and procedures are implemented. 1 As conventional planning would include geography and topography either in very early phases of rough planning and conduct strategic conceptions the planning possibilities also in combination with GIS introduce locations, distances and even buildings including story levels at a very early phase.

DM units may be seen as specifications of the IoT, SOs and CPS. Advanced control techniques, clou... more DM units may be seen as specifications of the IoT, SOs and CPS. Advanced control techniques, cloud computing, emerging network technologies, embedded systems and WSNs are further upgrading devices; the developments may also be seen as an evolution of M2M. The numerous and varying presentations concerning the origin of the devices indicate the rapid convergence of all technologies, so many differences become less and less remarkable. For DM, the developments are anticipated by the introduction of the more specific Cyber Physical Production Systems (CPPS), e.g. since 2013 strongly propagated in the national funding scheme Industry 4.0 in Germany, as these progresses in ICT progressively translate into fast evolving requirements for manufacturing units. Companies will invest in novel technical solutions and to focus their attention on open smart automation platforms for further optimising their manufacturing processes. An essential successful innovation path, which has to be surely classified as disrup-tive, may be postulated by the smartening up of existing items that are already involved in the manufacturing process. Hence, manufacturing units will increasingly exhibit as equipped with physical and digital objects, upgraded with sensing, processing, actuating and networking capabilities. Abilities, as environment-awareness or self-logging and self-reporting features further augment these items and demand carrying many data about themselves as well as their activity domains. In order to enable the units to execute the functionalities as assumed, they are expected to exhibit a number of properties, in line with the concurrency principles, harmonised with the novel options and ready to execute all required tasks. A small set of important properties that has proven to be relevant for manufacturing units and all other objects involved in the context of manufacturing, supply and distribution is now detailed. These properties include the features, as found in many re-quirements' lists for smart manufacturing or smart production, that have been verified with the first implementations studied by the authors, and will therefore come up again in the examples chapters. The collection is full in line with the technical possibilities, smart machines offer already. Moreover, the properties are the base for further work on the cyber maturity and its technological readiness level TRL of units or companies. With this aim, a maturity matrix within the DM architecture , the Distributed Manufacturing Maturity Model DMMM or D3M, is proposed and applied to the examples in Chapter 6. Although the discussion is about all aspects, as given by the six layer generics, the properties, subsequently described in the context of DM, of course, are primarily touching the information layer, representing the key aspect for integrating novel ICT capabilities.

The intention is the derivation of specific attributes related to the specific concerns of the fi... more The intention is the derivation of specific attributes related to the specific concerns of the field of research. Industrial Production includes all human initiated, controlled and deliberately executed combinations of resources for the provision of market goods and products. Observed phenomena may view technical, social, ecological and economic issues projecting each an option for specification of Industrial Production.
This definition includes any facts and operation fields to be discussed for analysing, controlling, implementing and developing Industrial Production under and for prescribed objective settings.

Scientific efforts originated in technical, continued later technical and economical views. Paradigm changes in Production Research during the 80's added views of emerging significance, as there are increasing environmental, cultural and social challenges. Based on the Taylorism, some additional concepts where developed, such as total quality management, just in time, quality circles, etc. Thus concepts, mainly developed and employed in Japan, still bases on the mass production paradigm. They just focus on single aspects of management issues (e.g. quality). In the late 80th a fundamental change in thinking models occurred. Research and industries realised that the arising customer- / process- and employee-orientation needs new concepts. The employment of the concepts Lean Production and Business Reengineering can be seen as the first step, but they still tray to optimise existing structures and organisations. A real step forward was made by developing the idea of bionic (Japanese approach), agile (American approach) and fractal company (German approach). All of these three approaches are proposed in the early 90th and initialised a new industrial paradigm, the post mass production paradigm. While Agile and Bionic just focus on single aspects of management issues (refer to the following chapters), the Fractal Company Concept can be currently seen as the holistic approach in management theory.
The fractal organisation approach is based on the experience that advanced concepts for re-configurability and agility as just-in-time, Simultaneous engineering or Total Quality Management require a radical change of classical organisational structures.

This volume includes a number of key chapters from the fields of facilities planning, factory des... more This volume includes a number of key chapters from the fields of facilities planning, factory design and manufacturing enterprise organisation as compiled lecture material, conceived as the lecture- accompanying scriptum. All chapters are given a common framework which provides for both, embracing all the included chapters in uniform notation and giving a solid base for future research and scientific work. All contents may be easily extended by new methods, the structural set up holds for a lot of future trends and research results to be incorporated. The final chapter on Cyber Manufacturing is a valid proof for this statement. Moreover, I hope that other intentions as fostering exciting accesses to field of manufacturing and manufacturing systems and to provide a solid formal base are met as well by the text.

Thesis, 2013

Production system framework, contextualized method and required adaptation capabilities are devel... more Production system framework, contextualized method and required adaptation capabilities are developed that take into account exploitation of indigenous method, managing culture dynamics, organizational capability and lean requirements. Upon proper implementation of developed method with indigenous methods, the resulting production
system evolves to a scenario of context-specific or contestant-free or combinations of these production system portfolios

Introduces concepts for the integration of Computer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP) and Production ... more Introduces concepts for the integration of Computer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP) and Production Planning and Control (PPC). Characterizes the current situation regarding integration by a one-way communication from CAPP to PPC, since a revised link is not envisaged. Introduces a new approach to full integration by the extension of functions within both systems′ components as well as integration of both data. Integration of information flow in production systems must be mainly a functional integration. Isolated components of computer-aided technology are available; the integration of the components, however, means more than interfacing. Functional integration of production planning and control (PPC) and computer-aided process planning (CAPP) is worked out in the proposed paper. The main point of interest will be the fact that an integration of two functions can eliminate bottlenecks in process easily without overcharging at later time periods as well as producing inventory by choosing alternative routings. The complete functional integration is discussed and examples are given.