Competitive differentiation in the manufacturing sector is no longer based on product and service innovations alone but on the ability to monetize the usage phase of products and services. To this end, manufacturers are ...
The way companies create service-oriented value is changing as organizational boundaries blur towards value creation in ecosystems. To position themselves strategically, practitioners need to understand the different roles ...
Designing human work in a productive way plays a vital role in maintaining competitiveness of industrial companies. In order to fulfil this task, practitioners can use different methods to describe, analyse and design work ...
Blockchain technology shows great potential in providing object-related end-to-end traceability in complex multitiered supply networks. However, the first systematic literature reviews indicate the immaturity of current ...
To address growing challenges in automotive assembly with ever shorter innovation cycles, increasing variant diversity and uncertain market development, innovative concepts for assembly systems are needed. As a response, ...
This contribution tackles the effects of digitalisation on leadership in production work. Based on the assumption that production work in the future will be characterised as more flexible, networked and digitalised, the ...
The effects of a fossil fuel-based economy are becoming increasingly apparent. The storage and use of renewable energy sources are a key strategy to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, the demand for ...
Industrial companies are moving to a solution driven business by offering smart product service systems (Smart PSS). In addition to an existing portfolio of physical goods and technical services, companies develop new ...
Industry 4.0 is a new dynamic paradigm for manufacturing companies, being studied by academia and evolving at the same time as companies are trying to leverage its potentials. Readiness and maturity models have been developed ...
The use of chatbots has hardly been established in B2B companies to date and involves various challenges. The goal of this paper is to identify the biggest barriers to the successful implementation of chatbots in B2B ...
For the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), the evaluation of manual materials handling (MMH) is important. In this context, cumulative loading can be used as an exposure index for the ergonomic assessment of ...
The rapid pace of technological development and high competition make the business employ proper approaches to assess the effectiveness of their value creation process or supply chains. The dynamic business environment ...
The importance of job shop production is increasing in order to meet the customer-driven greater demand
for products with a larger number of variants in small quantities. However, it also leads to higher
requirements for ...
Forecasting-based skills management, which is oriented to the respective corporate goals, is gaining enormous importance as a central management tool. The aim is to predict future skills requirements and match them with ...
With the aim of enabling better utilization of renewable power and reducing the environmental impact of industrial sites, we propose an approach for implementing electric demand response. Cleaning machines provide significant ...
The cost and performance structure of a factory is determined in factory planning and activated in the operation phase with a time delay. Even though the majority of investments result from structural planning, the first ...
Pletzer-Zelgert, Leonie Pauline; de Souza, Bruna Pereira; Kolter, Moritz; Traverso, Marzia; Schleifenbaum, Johannes Henrich(Hannover : publish-Ing., 2023)
Additive Manufacturing (AM) opens new possibilities for producing complex parts while achieving high material efficiency. Besides the technological advantages, AM is considered a key technology for sustainable production. ...