Personnel scheduling closes the missing link between personnel and production planning in manufacturing companies. Personnel scheduling has a significant impact on the development of employee competencies and the achievement ...

Unforeseen machine tool failures due to technical issues can cause downtimes leading to delays during production. To reduce delays, rescheduling of the production is, in most cases, necessary. However, warranting such a ...

Sales revenues of small and medium-sized enterprises are subject to seasonal fluctuation. This leads often to overloaded or underutilized manufacturing resources. Either way, this results in revenue losses. Therefore, ...

Development of composite structure which are both light and economically competitive is challenging. A new method for the development of CRFP lightweight structures implements a frequent interaction of design and production ...

Digitalization is changing industrial production and is offering huge potential for producing companies. One effect resulting from the increasing presence of information and communication technology in production is the ...

Current megatrends such as globalisation and digitalisation are increasing complexity, making systems for well-founded and short-term decision support indispensable. A necessary condition for reliable decision-making is ...