BenchmarkKeihin

BenchmarkKeihin is a benchmark suite and evaluation framework proposed for standardizing the assessment of smart manufacturing and logistics in the Keihin industrial region of Japan. It offers a curated set of benchmark tasks that reflect common operations in modern factories, including production scheduling, robotic assembly, and material handling in warehouses. The project is designed to enable apples-to-apples comparisons across software, hardware, and control strategies by providing a common problem set, reference implementations, and an agreed evaluation protocol.

The framework consists of three main components: a problem set describing representative tasks, a reference implementation plus datasets, and a scoring scheme with defined metrics. Typical metrics reported with BenchmarkKeihin include completion time, throughput, energy consumption, reliability, and total cost of ownership. To promote reproducibility, the framework emphasizes containerized environments and access to anonymized traces of real-world operations.

Applications of BenchmarkKeihin span academic research and industrial development, enabling evaluation of scheduling algorithms, digital-twin models, autonomous material-handling systems, and ERP integrations under consistent conditions. It supports benchmarking of both software solutions and hardware-enabled workflows, helping stakeholders compare approaches and track improvements over time. While widely referenced in literature and industry discussions, practitioners note considerations such as data confidentiality, domain specificity, and the need for periodic updates to reflect evolving manufacturing practices.