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Today's production systems are complex sociotechnical systems. Both technical challenges, as well as the integration of human employees with their diverse abilities, wants, and needs, must be considered. Due to a growing number of product variants, shorter lead times, and global supply chains, planning production systems is becoming increasingly difficult, both on the technical and human levels. The highly volatile and uncertain character of production systems is intensified by the growing complexity and need for results in shorter decision times for ramp-up management. To handle the increasing complexity, human decision makers must be adequately trained for the ramp-up period. Therefore, the influential factors and their magnitude from both the technical and the human perspective must be identified and understood. This knowledge can help to manage the complexity of ramp-up processes, reduce the …