The shop floor is a dynamic environment, where deviations to the production plan frequently occur. While there are many tools to support production planning, production control is left unsupported in handling disruptions. ...

Digitalization requires a new form of management to master the transformation process of corporations and companies. The Dortmund Management Model structures the focus areas of the digital transformation along the management ...

Due to its great importance for a successful planning, control and improvement of business processes, action management is long established as essential management process in most companies. However, there is often a ...

Current developments and trends are causing an increasingly turbulent environment for manufacturing companies. In order to respond to these dynamic market conditions, products and thus also production systems have to be ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies become increasingly relevant for manufacturing companies. Despite having the highest share of AM applications, end-use parts are mostly used for spare or special parts and rarely ...

The supply of customer-specific products is leading to the increasing technical complexity of machines and plants in the manufacturing process. In order to ensure the availability of the machines and plants, maintenance ...

The continuous testing and redesign of current business models and the associated adaptation of increasingly customized value propositions are nowadays becoming more and more important for companies. Thereby the additional ...

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 ...

Today's manufacturing companies operate in a turbulent production environment characterized by globali-zation, mass personalization, and customer-specific product requirements. In this context, Lean Produc-tion and Industry ...

Large and complex products such as aircrafts or wind energy plants are usually produced in small batches. This leads to particular requirements for logistics with regard to process efficiency, flexibility and reliability ...