Manufacturing companies face an environment that is dominated by influences which affect
the usage of their manufacturing equipment. Trends like shortening life cycles of products …

Technical Debt (TD) has proven to be a suitable communication concept for software-
intensive contexts to raise awareness regarding longterm negative effects of deviations from …

Software engineering in the industrial automation domain requires generic methods to keep
the development complexity at an acceptable level. However, nowadays various PLC …

Current trends in the context of Industry 4.0 attempt to minimize production costs and
increase productivity. Nowadays control systems consist of components from various …

Due to the increasing individualization of products by the customer and shorter product
lifecycles, there is an increasing number of variants in assembly lines in the final automotive …

Optimal selection of resources for a Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS) has a strong
potential to reduce the cost of producing product families. Unfortunately, engineers rarely …

The assembly of individualized products requires an increasing number of process changes
that reconfigurable production systems have to cope with today. Multiple changes of the …

Assembly systems are an essential component of industrial production. However, due to a
lack of tools for decision-making support, these systems are usually planned and designed …

The increasing demand of flexibility in cyber-physical production systems results from a
growing number of product variants and customer specific products. Resources, like robots …

Produzierende Unternehmen befinden sich heutzutage in einem dynamischen Umfeld, in
welchem sich Randbedingungen und Anforderungen häufig ändern. Gründe hierfür sind …