Auditory Logistic Analysis in Production Planning and Control

Whereas methods for visualization of time-based data have become widely accepted in the fields of data analysis and human computer interaction, analogous approaches in the field of data sonification remain marginally recognized at best. However, sound is intrinsically tied to space and time, which makes it strongly eligible for conveying information based on multivariate time-based data, such as planning and feedback data of manufacturing processes. We propose a sonification model for Auditory Logistic Analysis (ALA) that is derived from the throughput element of the Bottleneck Oriented Logistic Analysis and allows for the displaying of data from several logistic perspectives, which we will apply on two example data sets from a circuit board manufactory and steel production.