Objectives of Integrated Digital Production Engineering in the Automotive Industry
| Authors: | Schmidgall Guenter, Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany
Kiefer Jens, Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany
Bär Thomas, Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany |
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| Topic: | 5.1 Manufacturing Plant Control |
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| Session: | Research and Developments Challenges and Open Issues in Manufacturing Automation |
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| Keywords: | Automobile industry, control engineering, industrial production systems,integration, data models, planning, programmable logic controllers, validation |
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Abstract
To appropriately meet the constantly rising market demands, the innovationtopic “digital factory” has taken on key significance in the automotive industry. By meansof a new integration concept – integrated production engineering – the three fieldsmechanics, electrics, and logic are more closely intermeshed using a so-called virtualresource model. In this context, two major challenges have to be mastered: theorganizational and the functional integration. The prototypical realization of thisintegration concept is carried out on the basis of a practical scenario from the commercialvehicle development.
