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 ...

While the number of blockchain ecosystems is growing, enterprises are confronted with the decision on how data can be securely and reliably transferred to blockchains. Even though current blockchain solutions proof to be ...

Electronic appliance manufacturers are facing the challenge of frequent product orders. Based on each product order, the assembly process and workstations need to be planned. An essential part of the assembly planning is ...

The Digital Twin (DT), including its sub-categories Digital Model (DM) and Digital Shadow (DS), is a promising concept in the context of Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. With ongoing maturation of its fundamental ...

For contract or make to order manufacturers, quotation costing is a complex process that is mainly performed based on experience. Due to the high diversity of the product range of these mostly small or medium-sized companies ...

Industry 4.0 is driven by Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Products. Smart Products provide a value to both its users and its manufacturers in terms of a closer connection to the customer and his data as well as the provided ...

From the perspective of manufacturing companies, data handling is gaining more attention as it is becoming a strategic resource in digital ecosystems. Market forces such as rising amounts of product variants and decreasing ...