Methodology for the Assessment of Changeability of Production Systems Based on ERP Data

In the context of the increasing turmoil not only in the finance sector but also in matters of environment, politics, law and society the changeability of an enterprise is becoming an increasingly important success factor. The assessment of changeability has seen different approaches, most of them only of qualitative nature. Those that use qualitative measures usually depend on estimated figures which are highly subjective. This paper deals with the use of ERP feedback data as objective input as well as its processing and visualization in an online-based software tool, with the goal to assess the changeability of production systems.