The prevailing volatile changes in the market are forcing companies to perform increasingly complex planning tasks. Furthermore, shorter product life cycles and a more frequent adaption to customer requirements arise ...

The range of tasks performed by industrial robots has become increasingly comprehensive in recent decades. This includes pick-and-place tasks with low to medium handling weights, as well as material processing tasks with ...

The planning of factories and production processes is subject to constantly changing requirements and has always been challenged by uncertain future forecasts. Factory planning projects initiated for the production of ...

The blockchain technology represents a decentralized database that stores information securely in immutable data blocks. Regarding supply chain management, these characteristics offer potentials in increasing supply chain ...

The conditions for industrial companies are changing due to increasing customer demands for individualised as well as sustainable products. Furthermore, companies are confronted with technological change by digital tra ...

Due to growing environmental awareness, the Circular Economy and in particular the concept of Reverse Logistics (RL) are more and more becoming the focus of industry, yielding ecological as well as economic advantages. ...

Manufacturing companies are constantly increasing their efforts in the subscription business, also known as product-as-a-service business, offering usage and outcome based solutions (value-in-use) instead of transactional ...

The digitalization of value networks holds out the prospect of many advantages for the participating companies. Utilizing information platforms, cross-company data exchange enables increased efficiency of collaboration and ...

Increasingly fast development cycles and individualized products pose major challenges for today's smart production systems in times of industry 4.0. The systems must be flexible and continuously adapt to changing conditions ...

Industrial manufacturing is confronted with increased cost pressure due to international competition. The use of automation solutions can help to optimally exploit existing potentials and react to market competitors. In ...