Solution Principles for Managing Instabilities in Ramp-up

During ramp-up the production system's behavior is not predictable as most of the conditions apply for the first time. Due to the unpredictable consequences of single actions, which widely affect the whole production system's structure, decision making and therewith controlling the ramp-up is challenging. Caused by a lack of control instabilities occur, which lead to reduced production effectiveness and delay achieving the target production volume. This research paper focuses on managing instabilities in ramp-up by facilitating decision making through reducing the root cause of instabilities which is the underlying complexity of the ramp-up. For this purpose four solution principles are provided.