Abstract The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has gained much attention in practice and
research over the last years. It serves as a novel manufacturing paradigm ensuring flexibility …

The manufacturing industry is currently changing from mass production to customized
production, which results in challenges concerning different production aspects. Industrie …

Abstract Lean management and “Industrie 4.0” have often been considered as separate
subjects. Lean management, as a methodical approach, aims at realizing a continuous …

Manufacturing companies worldwide recognized the high potential of Industrie 4.0 in order
to increasing production efficiency. Key benefits include creation of integrated systems …

Industry 4.0 smart production systems comprise industrial systems and subsystems that
need to be integrated in such a way that they are able to support high modularity and …

Smart production systems conforming the Industry 4.0 vision are based on subsystems that
are integrated in a way that supports high flexibility and re-configurability. Specific …

Industry 4.0 in manufacturing is about combining cyber-physical systems with industrial
automation systems. This integration of Systems so different in nature aims to create context …

Die vorliegende Doktorarbeit entstand während meiner Tätigkeit als Doktorand an der
Graduate School of Excellence advanced Manufacturing Engineering (GSaME) der …

The ability to enable a fast modification and system-change, in order to fulfil quickly
changing market needs, is one of the essential requirements of future production systems …

Order picking is a difficult and cognitively demanding task. Traditionally textual instructions
are helping new workers to learn different picking routines. However, the textual instructions …