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J¨org Niemann · Serge Tichkiewitch · Engelbert Westk¨amper (Eds.)
Design of Sustainable Product Life Cycles
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Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt. Ing. J¨org Niemann Institut f u¨ r Industrielle Fertigung und Fabrikbetrieb Fraunhofer Institut f¨ur Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA) Nobelstraße 12 70569 Stuttgart Germany [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Serge Tichkiewitch G-SCOP INPG Domaine Universitaire, BP 53 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 France [email protected]
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Engelbert Westk¨amper Institut f¨ur Industrielle Fertigung und Fabrikbetrieb Fraunhofer Institut f¨ur Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA) Nobelstraße 12 70569 Stuttgart Germany [email protected]
ISBN: 978-3-540-79081-5
e-ISBN: 978-3-540-79083-9
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Preface “Improved performance while lowering environmental impact”
Thomas Bittner is Head of Service and Fullservice at ABB Automation GmbH, Germany
Up till recently, improved performance in the process industry has always been characterised by the optimisation of the process control implemented. This involved higher costs to continuously adapt systems in order to keep pace with market change drivers. However, volatile customer requirements call for machines with increasingly shorter cycle times and smaller lot sizes. As a result, (short-term orientated) process optimisation alone is no longer a guarantee for success in today’s world. In order to achieve sustained competitive advantages in the future, companies will have to be capable of exploiting in the long-term the as-yet untapped productivity potentials of the assets they implement over their entire life cycle. In the context of future-proof life cycle management, there is a need to accompany the customer’s production system with intelligent evolution strategies throughout its life cycle and to optimise it in alignment with technical/technological advancements according to the situation and requirements prevailing. Thus, the management of the different life cycles of components within a system is esp
