Decentralized, cost-oriented production planning and control supported by printplan systems in the printing industry

Project Information

PRINTPLAN

Grant agreement ID: CR116391-BRE21337

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1994

End date 30 June 1996

Funded under

• Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - CRAFT -, 1990-1994

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Stieber-Druck GmbH
Germany

Objective

One goal of the project "Printplan" having participants from 7 printing firms, 2 software firms and 2 research institutes, is the development of an information system prototype (Printplan-System) for the support of the many different planning and controlling tasks in the printing industry. A further goal is to set up decentralized organizational structures in the areas of production planning and control. The project will be carried out by the active participation of the production employees.
Based on experiences from other industry branches, a big step has been made towards the availability of a specialized production planning system for the printing industry. A marketing joint venture, PRINTPLAN Partner, has been founded by the proposers to complete the development of the planning system, and to promote its usage throughout the industry. Although a fully functional system embedded in the business process of the project partners could not yet be established, a successful day-to-day usage is anticipated. This expectation is supported by the high resonance the project and the first software prototype evoked in the printing industry of several European countries.

Evidence for the usefulness of a strongly decentralized production planning process could not be found. In fact, this would be in contrast to the aim of producing a near to optimal master schedule for the whole production process. Instead, decentralizing certain competences, eg the decision on optimal setup sequences on the printing press to the foreman of the printing shop, seems a promising way to optimize efficiency in the production process.
With the transplanting of the decentralized concepts into the firms, flexible and quick reacting structures will be created which due to their integral task responsibilities will motivate the production workers to increase their performance. The printplan system to be developed must be user-friendly, task-oriented, highly compatible and inexpensive. The inclusion of cost aspects in the production planning process is another important task the system will perform. These system requirements are great technological challenges that the firms within the printing industry must face. Only by having flexible, inexpensive production programs is it possible for printing firms to remain competitive in todays markets.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › production economics

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Programme(s)

• FP3-CRAFT - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - CRAFT -, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Stieber-Druck GmbH

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 97922 Lauda-Königshofen ; Germany
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Nobelstrasse 12c ; 70569 STUTTGART
• Total cost: No data