Manufacturing companies are facing a broad variety of challenges caused by a dynamic production environment, which is driven by more upcoming cyclic factors such as products and manufacturing technologies. To succeed in such an environment, it is crucial to adapt company’s production structure as quick as possible to new requirements. This paper presents an approach for monitoring production structures continuously based on cyclic factors that trigger restructuring processes of the production structure in advance, with the goal of shortening the adaptation time.     «

Manufacturing companies are facing a broad variety of challenges caused by a dynamic production environment, which is driven by more upcoming cyclic factors such as products and manufacturing technologies. To succeed in such an environment, it is crucial to adapt company’s production structure as quick as possible to new requirements. This paper presents an approach for monitoring production structures continuously based on cyclic factors that trigger restructuring processes of the production st...     »