Production processes should always be stable, but at the same time it is important to react flexibly to short-term changes. Deike Ihnen, researcher at Fraunhofer IPK, and Dirk Busse, Managing Director of budatec, explain how this can be achieved.
Agility versus stability – what does that mean for companies?
Ihnen
Small companies such as budatec GmbH are inevitably very agile – after all, there is less room for standardization with fewer employees. In large companies like AZO GmbH, processes are generally standardized and rigid, and innovation can easily be left on the sidelines. In the AmbiProd project, we want to help large companies become more agile, while small companies take more advantage of standardization.
Busse
In principle, we are approaching the challenge from two sides: the large companies from the stable, standardized perspective and us from the flexible side. The aim is to bring us closer together and learn from each other.