Sustainability is getting more and more attention in society, industry, and research. Companies are increasingly focusing on sustainable practices to meet different requirements. Industrial maintenance, which tends to be ...

Increased transparency and domain expertise are often prerequisites for identifying energy savings potentials and improving energy efficiency in manufacturing systems. Small and medium-sized enterprises pursuing a reduction ...

Due to increasing global competition, companies are challenged to make their production flexible and adaptable. This leads to a steadily increasing complexity of production systems and thus their automation and control ...

As an interdisciplinary task, factory planning represents a key factor for logistics, supply chain and ultimately, the economic success of companies in the manufacturing sector. In factory planning projects, the focus is ...

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are capable of adjusting their operating point to the requirements of current customer demand with high degrees of freedom. In light of recent events, such as the covid crisis or ...

Production planning and control are characterized by unplanned events or so-called turbulences. Turbulences can be external, originating outside the company (e.g., delayed delivery by a supplier), or internal, originating ...