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Optimized Modular Production Networks in the Process Industry

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Abstract

One innovative production concept is currently highly discussed in the process industry: transformable, modular plant designs implemented in standardized transportation iso-containers Buchholz (Chem Eng Process: Process Intensif, 49(10):993–995, 2010, [3]).

Keywords

  • Customer Demand
  • Production Network
  • Plant Design
  • Flexible Production
  • Shorten Product Life Cycle

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  1. Laboratory for Fluid Separations, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Dominik Wörsdörfer & Stefan Lier

  2. Chair of Operations Research and Accounting, Faculty of Management and Economics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Pascal Lutter & Brigitte Werners

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  1. Dominik Wörsdörfer
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Correspondence to Dominik Wörsdörfer .

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Prof. Dr. Karl Franz Dörner

  2. Decision Sciences and Statistics (IDS) Department, ESSEC Business School of Paris, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    Dr. Ivana Ljubic

  3. Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Prof. Dr. Georg Pflug

  4. Operations Research and Control Systems, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Prof. Dr. Gernot Tragler

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Wörsdörfer, D., Lutter, P., Lier, S., Werners, B. (2017). Optimized Modular Production Networks in the Process Industry. In: Dörner, K., Ljubic, I., Pflug, G., Tragler, G. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2015. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42902-1_58

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