We consider the question whether or not high volume automotive production sites can be transformed to the basic concept of stabilized production. The problem is motivated by the necessity of car producers to transform their existing plants to this production system in order to deal with the increasing complexity of the manufacturing process. To successfully answer this question the long term stability level needs to be determined. Since these facilities are currently working under completely different production premises the stability level is not measurable. To overcome this obstacle the estimation of possible stability levels is crucial. Therefore, we propose a discrete event based simulation model to provide the necessary information in order to answer the question formulated. To verify the proposed method, an empirical study is conducted. Besides the stability levels different influence factors and recommendations could be derived from the present study. The transparency provided by this approach fosters the understanding of the stabilized production and reveals several gaps in the literature, which provide new fields of research.

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在灵活的汽车生产系统中对序列稳定性进行建模和分析

我们考虑是否可以将大批量汽车生产基地转变为稳定生产的基本概念。该问题是由于汽车制造商有必要将其现有工厂转换为该生产系统，以应对制造过程日益复杂的问题。为了成功回答这个问题，需要确定长期稳定性水平。由于这些设备当前在完全不同的生产场所中工作，因此无法测量稳定性水平。为了克服这一障碍，可能的稳定性水平的估计至关重要。因此，我们提出了一个基于离散事件的仿真模型，以提供必要的信息，以回答提出的问题。为了验证所提出的方法，进行了一项实证研究。除了稳定性水平，本研究还可以得出不同的影响因素和建议。这种方法提供的透明性促进了对稳定生产的理解，并揭示了文献中的一些空白，从而提供了新的研究领域。