Volume 115 (2025), Edition 01-02

Manufacturing companies must continuously adapt in the dynamic VUCA world in order to remain competitive. The types of changeability flexibility, robustness, resilience and transformability support factory systems in this. So far, however, these...

The transition from linear economy to circular economy is necessary to counteract climate change and ensure a more efficient use of resources. The design of factories is not only faced with new challenges and requirements but also needs to comply...

A core element of the upgrade circular economy is the re-assembly, which focuses on integrating new functionalities into the product after the user cycle, allowing it to enter a new lifecycle. However, re-assembly entails inherent uncertainties that...

Manufacturing companies are facing growing challenges. The Upgrade Circular Economy, in particular re-assembly, offers great potential for reducing costs and emissions. This article presents Re-X assessment as an approach to evaluate the upgrade...

To be able to address the challenges of climate change and resource scarcity it is necessary to establish methods for circular economy products. Existing product architectures complicate circular economy, which is why new ideas for design and...

Businesses are under increasing pressure to operate sustainably. Social expectations, strict legal regulations, and economic constraints lead to conflicting goals, such as economic versus environmental sustainability. This article defines the...

Businesses need to develop innovations. The pressure to accelerate market entry requires an early assessment of their economic value. This article introduces a quantitative method for evaluating sustainable value drivers applied to the innovation...

Organisational resilience is becoming increasingly important in the face of global uncertainties. To be able to react quickly to external changes and crises, companies need to flexibly adapt their processes and structures – and therefore also the...

Traceability systems are playing an increasingly important role in managing internal and external expectations in global supply chains. At the same time, the complexity of this task is increasing due to more complex and dynamic supply chains....

Long set-up times impair CNC tool production due to reduced flexibility, lower machine utilization and increased planning effort, which promotes delivery delays and production bottlenecks. Economically, they tie up capital, increase production...

Intralogistics offers a promising domain for applying artificial intelligence (AI). This article presents the findings of an empirical online survey on AI in intralogistics. The survey focuses on the current status of use cases, the selection of AI...

Private 5G campus networks offer a reliable communication solution for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), particularly due to high upload rates and low latencies. This article explores offloading the compute- and energy-intensive control processes of...

When initially implementing and further developing Shopfloor-Management, standardized KPIs are lacking. Selecting, sifting through, and specifying relevant KPIs at the shopfloor level involves significant time and personnel effort. To reduce this...

The volatile market environment in which manufacturing companies currently operate requires a resilient production and supply chain system to enable an economic operation. Co-production offers manufacturing companies great potential for increasing...

The increasing demand for customized products in the automotive industry generates new requirements for the complexity of tools and offers new fields of application for additive manufacturing processes. Hybrid additive manufacturing using laser...