Optimized capacity planning in the production hall with DisDAQ

Post Project DISDAQ — Photo credit: www.elk.at

Flexible mobile data collection in the production hall

Production capacity and the use of resources (personnel, plant utilisation, etc.) can be significantly improved in production lines with a high proportion of manual work steps or for highly customizable products through smart digitalization and modelling.

Our corporate partner ELK Fertighaus GmbH produces highly customizable prefabricated houses whose exterior and interior walls are prefabricated in the factory. The use of resources varies greatly from wall to wall. With the DisDAQ modular measuring system, LCM has created a flexible demonstrator that can be used to automatically measure the actual throughput times of the walls in production. As part of a funded project in collaboration with the Institute of Production Management and Logistics (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU), a digital twin of the production line is being trained based on this data, among other things, which enables optimal resource planning even for highly customizable walls.

Project requirements

Automated recording of throughput times along the production line
Simple retrofitting of the demonstrator in existing production
Development of a suitable database for the optimization of the required evaluation algorithms

The solution

Data acquisition: Measurement of throughput time with passive RFID tags at 10 measuring points along the production line during ongoing production
Cloud connection via relay station
Wireless connection of each measuring point to the relay station
Flexible design, easily expandable with additional measuring points
Evaluation: Individual evaluation per workbench