TY - JFULL AU - Sebastian Tsch枚pe and Konja Kn眉ppel and Peter Nyhuis PY - 2013/11/ TI - Assessing and Improving Ramp-Up Capability T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 2073 EP - 2077 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/17184 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 82, 2013 N2 - 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 ramp-ups. Thus it becomes obvious that ramp-up management is going to be a topic enterprises have to focus on in the future. Since each ramp-up is unique concerning the product, the process, the technology, the circumstances and the coaction of these four factors, the knowledge of the ramp-up situation and the current ramp-up capability of the enterprise are fundamental requirements for the subsequent improvement of the ramp-up capability of the production system. In this article a methodology is going to be presented which can be used to define typical production ramp-up situations, to identify the current ramp-up 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 software-tool developed based on this methodology. ER -