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Special theme
Planning and
Logistics
ERCIM NEWSNumber 105 April 2016
Research and Innovation:
Business Process Execution
Analysis through Coverage-based
Monitoring
by Antonello Calabrò, Francesca
Lonetti, Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR
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Also in this issue: Keynote:
Trends and Challenges in Logistics
and Supply Chain Management
by Henk Zijm, Professor of
Production and Supply Chain
Management, University of Twente
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Contents
JoINT ERCIM ACTIoNS
6 ManyVal 2015 - Workshop on Many-
Valued Logics
by Carles Noguera
6 ERCIM Cor Baayen Award
7 How Science can Improve Marine
Ecosystem Predictions: the BlueBRIDGE
Case
by Sara Garavelli
KEyNoTE
3 Trends and Challenges in Logistics and
Supply Chain Management
by Henk Zijm, Professor of Production andSupply Chain Management, University ofTwente
SPECIAL THEME
The special theme section “Planning and Logistics”has been coordinated by Rob van der Mei, CWI andAriona Shashaj, SICS.
Introduction to the Special Theme8 Visions of the Future: Towards the Next
Generation of Logistics and Planning Systems
by Rob van der Mei, CWI, and Ariona Shashaj,SICS
Simulation Models and Test Beds10 Defining the Best Distribution Network for
Grocery Retail Stores
by Pedro Amorim, Sara Martins, Eduardo Curcioand Bernardo Almada-Lobo, INESC TEC
11 Planning Production Efficiently
by Andreas Halm, Fraunhofer Austria
12 ICT for a Logistics Demonstration Centre
by Miguel A. Barcelona, Aragón Institute ofTechnology
14 Production Planning on Supply Network and
Plant Levels: The RobustPlaNet Approach
by Péter Egri, Dávid Gyulai, Botond Kádár andLászló Monostori, SZTAKI
Case Studies15 Modelling and Validating an Import/Export
Shipping Process
by Giorgio O. Spagnolo, Eda Marchetti, AlessandroCoco and Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR
16 Where is the Money? - Optimizing Cash Supply
Chain Networks
by Leendert Kok and Joaquim Gromicho, ORTEC
18 An Industrial Take on Breast Cancer Treatment
by Sara Gestrelius and Martin Aronsson, SICSSwedish ICT
19 Evaluating Operational Feasibility before
Investing: Shunting Yards in Sweden
by Sara Gestrelius, SICS Swedish ICT
20 Boosting the Responsiveness of Firefighter
Services with Mathematical Programming
by Pieter van den Berg, TU Delft, GuidoLegemaate, Amsterdam Fire Department, and Robvan der Mei, CWI
22 Predicting the Demand for Charging Stations for
Electric Vehicles
by Merel Steenbrink, Elenna Dugundji and Rob vander Mei, CWI
ERCIM NEWS 105 April 2016 5
Cutting-Edge Technologies 23 Data-driven Optimization for Intelligent and
Efficient Transport
by Björn Bjurling and Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICSSwedish ICT
24 Adopting a Machine Learning Approach in the
Design of Smart Transportation Systems
by Davide Bacciu, Antonio Carta, Stefania Gnesiand Laura Semini, ISTI-CNR
25 Remote Service Using Augmented Reality
by Björn Löfvendahl, SICS Swedish ICT
Sustainable Logistics and Planning26 Value Stream Mapping with VASCO - From
Reducing Lead Time to Sustainable Production
Management
by René Berndt and Alexander Sunk, FraunhoferAustria
28 Risk Analysis for a Synchro-modal Supply Chain
Combined with Smart Steaming Concepts
by Denise Holfeld and Axel Simroth, FraunhoferIVI
Mathematical Tools for Logistics and Planning29 Designing Sustainable Last-Mile Delivery
Services in Online Retailing
by Niels Agatz, Leo Kroon, Remy Spliet and AlbertWagelmans, Erasmus University Rotterdam
30 Spare Parts Stocking and Expediting in a
Fluctuating Demand Environment
by Joachim Arts, TU Eindhoven
32 Packing with Complex Shapes
by Abderrahmane Aggoun, KLS OPTIM, NicolasBeldiceanu, Gilles Chabert, École des Mines deNantes and François Fages, Inria
33 Allocating Railway Tracks Using Market
Mechanisms and Optimization
by Victoria Svedberg, SICS Swedish ICT
34 OscaR, an Open Source Toolbox for Optimising
Logistics and Supply Chain Systems
by Renaud De Landtsheer, Christophe Ponsard andYoann Guyot, CETIC
35 Integrated Resource Planning in Maintenance
Logistics
by Ahmad Al Hanbali, Sajjad Rahimi-Ghahroodi,and Henk Zijm
36 Utilising the Uniqueness of Operation Days to
better Fulfil Customer Requirements
by Sara Gestrelius
38 Planning Complex Supply Networks Facing High
Variability
by Ulrich Schimpel and Stefan Wörner, IBMResearch
RESEARCH ANd INNoVATIoN
This section features news about research activitiesand innovative developments from Europeanresearch institutes
40 Business Process Execution Analysis throughCoverage-based Monitoring
by Antonello Calabrò, Francesca Lonetti, EdaMarchetti, ISTI-CNR
42 Quality of Experience-assessment of WebRTCBased Video Communication
by Doreid Ammar, Katrien De Moor and PoulHeegaard, NTNU
43 D2V – Understanding the Dynamics of Evolv-ing Data: A Case Study in the Life Sciencesby Kostas Stefanidis, Giorgos Flouris, IoannisChrysakis and Yannis Roussakis, ICS-FORTH
45 Detection of Data Leaks in Collaborative
Data Driven Research
by Peter Kieseberg, Edgar Weippl, SBAResearch, and Sebastian Schrittwieser, TARGET
46 HOBBIT: Holistic Benchmarking of Big
Linked Data
by AxelCyrille Ngonga Ngomo, InfAI, AlejandraGarcía Rojas, ONTOS, and Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH
48 Smart Solutions for the CNR Campus in Pisaby Erina Ferro, ISTI-CNR
EVENTS, IN BRIEf
Announcements47 ERCIM “Alain Bensoussan” Fellowship
Programme
49 Minerva Informatics Equality Award
49 FMICS-AVoCS 2016: International Workshop
on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical
Systems and Automated Verification of
Critical Systems
50 ERCIM Membership
In Brief50 SHIFT2RAIL - European Railway Research
of 2015-2024
50 The ExaNeSt project - Fitting Ten Million
Computers into a Single Supercomputer
ERCIM NEWS 105 April 201626
Special Theme: Logistics and Planning
Even now, the first step in value streamanalysis - the acquisition of the currentstate - is still created using pen and paperby physically visiting the production site(see Figure 1). VASCO is a tool that con-tributes to all parts of value streamanalysis - from data acquisition on theshop floor, detailed analysis, over plan-ning, through to simulation of possiblefuture state maps (FSM) - always takingeconomic and ecological factors intoconsideration (see Figure 2).
When a new product is manufactured -starting with the raw materials at theincoming goods department rightthrough to the end product in the handsof the customer - multiple activities arerequired, for instance, assembly, trans-port and temporary storage. The aggre-gation of these various steps is called“value stream”. More efficient plan-ning and implementation of the valuestream means more profit for the busi-ness. Maximizing the efficiency of avalue stream is becoming increasinglydifficult owing to the flexible nature ofmodern production. Enterprises needto adopt their business to the require-ments of the market - e.g. how to copewith demand fluctuations or to fulfilindividual customer requests. This is
one of the major challenges for valuestream planning.
Based on the experience of many proj-ects in the field of value stream opti-mization – and in cooperation with part-ners from industry - Fraunhofer Austriahas been developing the software toolVASCO. This solution is tailored forflexible and sustainable value streamplanning. Even the visualization andanalysis of complex value streams canbe performed efficiently.
VASCO is implemented as a MicrosoftVisio Add-In and supports the user increating intelligent value stream mapsin a fast and user-friendly manner. Itsmain advantages are the automaticlinking of processes and configurablelogistic tasks, as well as the (optional)display of five “economic” data-lines(production time, transport distances,space area usage, energy consumption,production costs) directly underneaththe value stream. Furthermore, “eco-logical” data-lines are implemented forassessing disposal and carbon footprintper part produced.
One of the significant features ofVASCO is that all VSM related symbols
are fully customizable by a configura-tion file. This configuration file defineswhich properties are added to thesymbol. These properties can be classi-fied into two major categories: manualinput values or calculated values. Themanual values are entered by the user,whereas the calculated values dependon a formula consisting of manuallyentered or other calculated values. Theformula definition is also part of theconfiguration file and can be modifiedeven at run-time. As a result, each com-pany can customize VASCO to theirindividual needs.
Another key feature of VASCO isextensibility. While VASCO is aMicrosoft Visio Add-In, it can be cus-tomized by plugins itself. The basic ver-sion of VASCO is shipped with threeplugins, extending the basic function-ality of the tool:
• KPI-Plugin The KPI-Plugin addsadditional visual features (see Fig-ure 4) to the Visio page. This shapeclearly displays the key performanceindicators of the factory. Once aVASCO graph is complete andVASCO itself is in calculation mode,the values are calculated and auto-
Value Stream Mapping with VASCo -
from Reducing Lead Time to Sustainable
Production Management
by René Berndt and Alexander Sunk, Fraunhofer Austria
Value stream mapping (VSM) is a lean management methodology for analyzing and optimizing
a series of events for production or services.
Figure�1:�Typical�hand-drawn�VSM�created�at�the�production�place. Figure�2:�VSM�diagram�created�with�VASCO.
matically updated when a value in thegraph changes.
• OBC-Plugin The operator balancechart (OBC) visualizes the totalamount of work of each process com-pared to the takt time. The takt timecan be considered as an average
external rate at which customerrequires goods produced. Therefore,the OBC visualizes how the cycletimes of processes in the consideredvalue stream fulfill this need. AnOBC also supports optimal workloadbalancing between processes by mak-ing the amount of work for each oper-
ator very nearly equal to, but slightlyless than, takt time. Figure 5 showsthe OBC chart of the given example.
• Comment-Plugin VASCO wasdesigned to make the acquisition andcalculation of a new value streameasier and to replace the pen andpaper acquisition. With the pen andpaper method it is always possible toadd different comments to the differ-ent symbols. In order to give theVASCO user a similar feature duringthe acquisition a comment plugin wascreated. This comment pluginenhances every symbol on a VASCOpage with a comment tab (see Figure3). When we observed that userssometimes only copied key figuresfrom a machine into this comment tabduring the data acquisition process,we further enhanced the comment-plugin with a snapshot ability. Thisfeature enables the user to take asnapshot with the tablet instead ofcopying the values. It is also possibleto record a video with the commentplugin. This can be used to record dif-ferent views of the machine or torecord the voice of the person whodoes the acquisition so that there isnot even the
Current work-in-progress is the integra-tion of sustainability criteria within aVSM. Ecological aspects are anincreasingly important factor in addi-tion to traditional economic considera-tions. “Sustainability” is the keywordthat is causing enterprises to a changethe way they operate. Responsibleentrepreneurs and managers in Austriaand throughout Europe also haveresponsible customers. Products with avery good environmental balance pro-vide a competitive advantage by ful-filling the customer’s needs and thedemand of efficient resource use.
Link: http://www.fraunhofer.at/vasco
Reference:
[1] R. Berndt, et al.: “Vasco -Mastering the Shoals of Value StreamMapping”, in Proc. of the SixthInternational Conference on CreativeContent Technologies, 2016.
Please contact:
Thomas EdtmayrFraunhofer Austria [email protected]
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production�place.
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