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Key levers for a modular and efficient manufacturing Today the market for intelligent products is growing at its strongest rate in industry. If manufacturing companies wish to transform their value-added processes into digital, platform-based business models by using such products, they should be aware of various aspects.

Interview with Thomas Ebenhöch, Site and Plant Manager Regensburg, Continental Automotive GmbH Thomas Ebenhöch describes the benefits arising from the teamwork between humans and collaborative robots in Continental’s Regensburg plant.

The Backbone of the Smart Factory. IoT technologies that are currently available offer extremely interesting possibilities of organizing shop floor management more effectively and efficiently. The article explains what companies should consider when establishing an agile, transparent management system with digital tools.

Interview with Michael Berner, Production Manager, BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH. How BorgWarner changed its shift planning with its own KapaflexCy app and what best practice experience was gained from it is explained by Michael Berner.

Milestones on the Road to an Intelligent Factory. Inside the “smart factory”, the way to increasing quality and output while using fewer resources is via a comprehensive model of operational excellence. The article introduces six elements that are essential to this.

Why Companies need a New Concept of Transparency

ROI Rated Top in the “Engineering & Production” Category in WGMB’s new Study on “Hidden Champions of the Consulting Market”

Science Reality IoT instead of Science Fiction - Event in Munich

Investment in Qualification Necessary

How lean priciples and ERP can be combined

A new study from ROI Management Consulting AG reveals trends in the global management of research and development.

Article reporting about a German effort to marry the Internet of Things (IOT) to heavy manufacturing (Industrie 4.0)

Published at: www.wsj.com

Stefan Weiler explains the new significance of quality and branding in China’s automotive industry

AHK Newsletter - German Industry & Commerce June / July 2015

The Engineering and Automotive Industries

New Old Economy: Surviving in an Age of Convergence

Perfection!? Why we need to reconsider quality

Automotive supplier Carcoustics: From Initial Idea to Profitable Operations in Only Two Years

Savings up to 25 percent

Strategies, challenges and best practice solutions around Industry 4.0

ROI analyses different scenarios of the effects of industry 4.0 solutions on MES

How Operational Excellence Determines Success

Carcoustics celebrated the official inauguration of a new production facility in Slovakia

Hands on lean production

Main focus: Strategies for global footprint design

Investigation of the prospects for the regions of Eastern Europe through to 2020

ELA awarded Remmers Baustofftechnik for its '<24 h Logistics Concept'

Analysis of the machinery and plant engineering sector

Analysis by ROI Management Consulting AG

The management consultancy ROI was awarded in the category ‘Supply Chain Management’

Focus - Adaptive Production