Publications in Scientific Journals:
T. Sobottka, W. Sihn, T. Edtmayr:
"Increasing The Efficiency Of Closed Loops Of Reusable Containers In Production Environments Concerning Container Cleaning";
ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS - Bulletin of Engineering (invited),
VII
(2014),
1;
101
- 110.
English abstract:
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.
Keywords:
reusable container, efficiency, container management, Auto-ID
Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_230000.pdf
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