<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/17184" mdate="2013-09-03 00:00:00"> <author>Sebastian Tsch枚pe and Konja Kn眉ppel and Peter Nyhuis</author> <title>Assessing and Improving RampUp Capability </title> <pages>2074 - 2077</pages> <year>2013</year> <volume>7</volume> <number>10</number> <journal>International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/17184</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/82</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>In times when product life cycles are decreasing, while market demands are increasing, manufacturing enterprises are confronted with the challenge of more frequent and more complex rampups. Thus it becomes obvious that rampup management is going to be a topic enterprises have to focus on in the future. Since each rampup is unique concerning the product, the process, the technology, the circumstances and the coaction of these four factors, the knowledge of the rampup situation and the current rampup capability of the enterprise are fundamental requirements for the subsequent improvement of the rampup capability of the production system. In this article a methodology is going to be presented which can be used to define typical production rampup situations, to identify the current rampup capability of a production system and to improve it with respect to a specific situation. Additionally there will be a description of the functionality of a softwaretool developed based on this methodology. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 82, 2013</index> </article>