Innovative Selection Method for Internal Logistics Concepts Based on Material Data

Abstract

Production logistics for automobile manufacturing needs to adapt to new production layouts and methods within the upcoming years. Based on the continuing growth of individualization of vehicles in the premium segment and alternative drive concepts, economical productions, based on Henry Ford's conveyor system, will become difficult. Therefore, new flexible and adaptable production logistics concepts will be used to achieve the goal of a flexible and changeable automotive production. However, manufacturers have to decide, which logistic concept is best for each assembly station. The purpose of this paper is to show an innovative method, which contains requirements for a logistics concept e.g. the selection of an individual concept for each production station and considers respective requirements and costs resulting for the use of respective logistics concepts.