The ongoing digitization of production has led to a significant increase in global competition. Manufacturing companies located in high-wage countries such as Germany must find ways to transform their production to ...

Rising energy prices are an increasing financial burden for manufacturing companies. In addition to established logistical and cost-oriented targets such as short throughput times and low stock levels, energy costs assume ...

Today more than ever, companies are forced to regularly initiate projects in their factories in order to ensure competitiveness through constant adaptation and change. Such projects are controlled and managed individually. ...

Companies and their factories are in a state of permanent change. Factory planning is interested in anticipating the changes that will occur and thinking ahead structural adjustments by dimensioning the operating resources, ...

Die Motivation zur Erstellung dieses Papers entstand aus zahlreichen Diskussionen mit Vertretern produzierender Unternehmen und der unzureichenden Antwort der Wissenschaft auf die Fragestellung, welche Organisationsform ...