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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

Factories are characterised by a long life cycle and substantial investment costs. In particular, factory planning and reorganisation lead to capital-intensive investments and have a significant influence on the liquidity ...

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 ...

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 ...