Consequences of demographical change for future production and technology processes

Due to decreasing product life cycles, enterprises are determined to continually reconsider production and technology sequences in order to maintain their competitiveness. Given the rapid shift in today’s working environments, especially concerning duties and required qualifications, enterprises face the challenge to meet new, technology-driven demands in the context of demographic change. This article presents an approach to the issue of reconciling the altering skills of ageing employees with future worlds of technology in a systematic way.