Potentials of Factory Standards in Production Ramp-Ups

With increasing innovational dynamics and shorter product and technology lifecycles, companies are facing a huge number of production ramp-ups in shorter times at a higher complexity. To cope with these challenges, methods and tools are required to reduce instabilities during production ramp-ups and to enable a smooth and stable ramp-up curve. One solution approach is the application of factory standards. As standardized product architectures are already state of the art for many companies, standardized factory structures are the next step towards an overall standardized production architecture. The approach of factory standards and its benefits especially during ramp-up will be introduced in this paper.