A modular-based approach for Just-In-Time Specification of customer orders in the aircraft manufacturing industry

Jens Buergin, Farouk Belkadi, Christoph Hupays, Ravi Kumar Gupta, Frank Bitte, Gisela Lanza, Alain Bernard

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Abstract

The demand for flexibility in the configuration of highly customized capital goods such as aircrafts is rising. Customers request specifying product options later than required by the currently defined order fulfilment process of the OEM. However, late changes of previously configured products can cause disturbances in global production networks. In this paper, a modular-based approach is presented, allowing customers to specify options just-in-time depending on the respective lead times following an Engineer/Order-to-order (EOTO) strategy. The concept of Just-In-Time Specification with its respective phases of order specification and steps of production planning is described and applied to the aircraft manufacturing industry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)61-74
Number of pages14
JournalCIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology
Volume21
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 05-2018

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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