Levels of autonomy in production logistics: terminology and framework

  • The increasing demand of flexibility in production systems influences the organisation of production logistics and enhances the role of autonomous resources for logistic tasks. In the current state of the art, there exists neither a common definition of the term “autonomy” in the production logistics context nor a generalised approach regarding the classification of autonomous resources depending on their characteristics as well as their skills. Due to this lack, difficulties appear when intending to integrate autonomous resources - that are implemented for logistic tasks - in the superior production control processes which aim to meet the key performance indicators of the production system. This paper analyses in a first step the current use of terminology regarding autonomy and related terms like automation and self-x approaches in production logistics. Based on these results, a definition of “autonomy” for production logistics and a universal framework for classifying autonomousThe increasing demand of flexibility in production systems influences the organisation of production logistics and enhances the role of autonomous resources for logistic tasks. In the current state of the art, there exists neither a common definition of the term “autonomy” in the production logistics context nor a generalised approach regarding the classification of autonomous resources depending on their characteristics as well as their skills. Due to this lack, difficulties appear when intending to integrate autonomous resources - that are implemented for logistic tasks - in the superior production control processes which aim to meet the key performance indicators of the production system. This paper analyses in a first step the current use of terminology regarding autonomy and related terms like automation and self-x approaches in production logistics. Based on these results, a definition of “autonomy” for production logistics and a universal framework for classifying autonomous resources regarding their level of autonomy can be proposed. This allows to specify afterwards the appropriate level of autonomy in production logistics for a specific production system.show moreshow less

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Author:Michaela KräGND, Leonard Eckart, Marinella Rito, Johannes SchilpGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-961459
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/96145
ISSN:2701-6277OPAC
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics: CPSL 2022
Publisher:publish-Ing.
Place of publication:Hannover
Editor:D. Herberger, M. Hübner
Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2022/06/15
First Page:713
Last Page:722
DOI:https://doi.org/10.15488/12140
Institutes:Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik / Lehrstuhl für Ingenieurinformatik mit Schwerpunkt Produktionsinformatik
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):CC-BY 3.0: Creative Commons - Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)