Nowadays companies are facing an increasing turbulent environment. It is more and more important to react fast on changes to stay competitive. But not only the technology has to be adaptable; also the frame conditions for ...

In the past decades, the environment of production companies showed a permanent increase in dynamic and volatility in the form of demand fluctuations, new technologies or global crises. As a reaction to these new requirements, ...

Internal and external influencing factors force companies to adapt their production networks to changing conditions, which entails a high level of complexity. To be competitive in the future, manufacturing companies have ...

Existing as well as new production systems need to adapt to meet increasing requirements of global, volatile markets. Companies aim to keep their production systems physically changeable while at the same time raise their ...