The cost and performance structure of a factory is determined in factory planning and activated in the operation phase with a time delay. Even though the majority of investments result from structural planning, the first ...

Global crises pose major challenges for production companies: Rising material and energy costs, supply bottlenecks and the lack of planning certainty due to the dynamics of a pandemic or war weaken the planning stability. ...

Digital twins are becoming increasingly popular in industry and are being used in various areas, such as production planning and control. Logistics performance still needs to be improved, especially in highly complex and ...

Software demonstrators enable the transfer of theoretical concepts into industrial practice and therefore are used in various research areas. Although the stages of the development of a software demonstrator are already ...

As an interdisciplinary task, factory planning represents a key factor for logistics, supply chain and ultimately, the economic success of companies in the manufacturing sector. In factory planning projects, the focus is ...

Storage planning is an important element of the factory planning and a significant competitive factor in times of an increasing global market [1]. The selection of a suitable storage, commissioning and transport system (sct ...

Despite constantly increasing condition monitoring parallel to operation, maintenance, repair & overhaul (MRO) processes in the regeneration of complex capital goods are still characterised by a high degree of uncertainty ...

Manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of operating cost-efficiently and remaining competitive in a turbulent environment with constantly changing demands on production. To meet these challenges, factory ...

Order management is a main PPC task in company internal supply chains. It provides the link between customers and the company's internal order processing processes. The boundary conditions defined hereby influence adjacent ...

As companies continue to globalize, manufacturers face the challenge of strategically adjusting their vertical integration and restructuring production and supply chains. This leads manufacturers to increasingly pursue two ...