The Lean Production System 4.0 Framework - Enhancing Lean Methods by Industrie 4.0

Industrie 4.0 is one of the major approach towards an increased production effectiveness. For the evaluation of Industrie 4.0 impact on production systems and the followed implementation, a common understanding of all participants and interdisciplinary stakeholders of Industrie 4.0 projects is required. A common and application-orientated framework might support the common understanding. However, a general, common and application-orientated has not been invented and described so far. Furthermore, it has been analyzed, that Lean builds the basis for the implementation of Industrie 4.0. Thus, this paper presents an application-orientated Industrie 4.0 framework and the interdependencies of Industrie 4.0 and Lean Production Systems (LPS), resulting in the Lean Production framework 4.0 (LPS 4.0). Based on this LPS 4.0, a toolbox respectively a catalogue of LPS methods, enhanced by using the Industrie 4.0 framework, has been developed - the LPS 4.0 method catalogue. This supports companies to identify Industrie 4.0 potentials and evaluate the individual benefits of Industrie 4.0.