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T. Sobottka, W. Sihn, T. Edtmayr:
"Increasing the Efficiency of Closed Loops of Reusable Containers in Production Environments Concerning Container Cleaning";
Talk: MOTSP 2013, Novi Vinodolski; 2013-05-29 - 2013-05-31; in: "Management of Technology - Step to Sustainable Production", P. Cosic (ed.); Croatian Association for PLM, Zagreb (2013), ISSN: 1848-9591; Paper ID 179, 11 pages.

Today reusable containers, widely used in closed loops in production environments, are cleaned irrespective
of their cleanliness-status and thus the actual necessity for being cleaned. This often leads to a considerable
degree of technically superfluous container-cleaning, associated with high costs, transport efforts and
resource utilization. This paper aims at investigating ways to harness the savings potential of a necessity
based triggering of the cleaning process amid securing the quality of the container supply, controlling the
uncertainty introduced into the container-loops through the status-dependent triggering of cleaning and
establishing a process transparency enabling a reduction of the overall container inventory. A case study
performed in an automotive supplier is included.

reusable container, efficiency, container management, Auto-ID

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_225372.pdf