Impact of Self-organization on Tertiary Objectives of Production Planning and Control

Today's production is challenged by disruptive technologies, rapid changing customer needs and varying demands. Thus, production needs to satisfy not only primary and secondary but also tertiary objectives. Many production planning and control approaches have been evolved and proven to comply with primary and secondary objectives with ease. In this paper we look at the tertiary goals of production, such as flexibility, robustness and stability. Since there is no clarity about these terms and they are often mixed up in the literature. Using the example of a modern self-organizing and a classically centrally planned production, we will show the impact of uncertainty on these objectives. This comparison of the self-organizing and the centrally planned production includes the generation of realistic production data, as well as the procedure to apply the same production data and uncertainty in both the self-organizing and the centrally planned production.

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