Basic Laws of Production Logistics

Abstract

In the previous chapter, it was shown that despite what seems to be erratic circumstances it is possible to mathematically describe the behavior of a manufacturing system measured through the key performance figures for the logistic objectives. Based on these mathematical descriptions, we will now develop basic interdependencies that can be universally applied and formulate them as the Basic Laws of Production Logistics These laws are primarily meant to assist in understanding the logistic processes and how they can be potentially influenced in a production. As a starting point we will use the basic laws originally formulated by Wiendahl [Wien-89]. These will then be substantially expanded and to some degree reformulated. These laws can for the most part be traced back to the equations introduced in Chaps. 2 to 4. Only, the last two laws are based on empirically gained knowledge which at this point cannot yet be mathematically described.