Characterisation of production systems in the context of urban production
Master thesis
Description
Urban production offers opportunities to address the problems caused by a growing urban population. A major advantage of urban production is that transport routes can be avoided and locally available resources can be used. At the same time, the urban environment poses special challenges for the design of production chains. Urban space is limited and emissions must be avoided. The special demands on the production chain influence the choice of production systems to be used.
In the course of this work, a brief overview of definitions of urban areas and production systems shall be given, in order to build on this and highlight the special features of production in urban areas. The requirements for production systems derived from this will be used to establish a classification methodology for the evaluation of production systems. The interface of the systems with the environment must be taken into account. When designing suitable dimensions of a possible classification, the comparability of quantifiable aspects of system and environment must be considered. KPIs are to be designed to assess the suitability of production systems for urban production. Threshold values for evaluations of the systems in individual categories and the production-specific KPIs are to be worked out as a function of influencing variables of the urban environment. An application of this classification methodology on the basis of common production processes will round off the work.
Objectives
- Classification methodology for the classification of the suitability of production systems for urban production
- To work out KPIs for quantifying and generating comparability of the suitability of production systems for use in urban production.
- Elaboration of threshold values for the found dimensions and KPIs
Other information
Start: Immediately
Duration: 6 months
Language: German
Field of study: Mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, etc.
