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 ...

Complexity in the decision-making process results from the interaction of various parameters. Exemplary influencing factors are the durability of products, the desired delivery times, and the required product variants. In ...

The achievement of a high level of logistical performance is a primary goal of manufacturing companies. In order to remain competitive, companies must constantly improve order processing to ensure short delivery times and ...

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, ...

In today's markets, customers are demanding increasingly individualised products at a consistent price and quality level. Within production, this development is associated with a decrease in batch sizes and an increase in ...

Due to globally distributed value chains, manufacturing companies are increasingly operating in production networks. The management of these often historically grown networks requires the coordination of many tangible and ...

In the face of the increasing internationalization of markets, rising cost pressure, and shorter product life cycles, manufacturing companies are facing increasing competition and innovation pressure. To secure competitiveness, ...