The blockchain technology has been increasingly applied in industrial use-cases in recent years. Although the food industry fits in particular with the requirements for blockchain applications, since the actors barely know ...

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 ...

In this paper, a new solution for the facility layout problem is presented. The approach was integrated into a planning software. The aim of the MeFaP research project was mainly the development of a user-friendly decision ...

Apart from innovators and early adopters, industrial manufacturers are still looking for adequate guidance for the orientation, prioritization, and development of Industrie 4.0 initiatives. Case studies of best practices have ...

The emergence of cyber-physical systems (CPS), cyber-physical production systems and smart products is fundamentally changing the approach to product development. The paper addresses the current challenges in the development ...

Manufacturing companies, such as plant manufacturers and factory equipment suppliers, have been able to expand their traditional business model with services in recent decades, particularly around their core product. ...

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence extend the boundaries of what machines can do in all industries and business sectors. The economic potential to apply AI in manufacturing results in an increasing number of ...

Manufacturing companies are facing an increasingly turbulent environment. In order to respond to these dynamic market conditions, products and thus also production systems have to be adapted more frequently and much ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has once again drastically highlighted the trend and need towards urban and distributed production in cities (so-called Fab Cities) and their importance for society in order to independently meet ...

Companies have only limited resources to carry out value-adding activities. In order to achieve high quality requirements, the goal-oriented and efficient handling of failure incidents is a competence that must be emphasized. ...