Autor: Matthias Schmidt

Automation of Production Planning and Control

Automation of Production Planning and Control

A deep dive into production control with intelligent agents
Jonas Schneider, Peter Nyhuis ORCID Icon, Matthias Schmidt
How can artificial intelligence (AI) automate production planning and control? This study examines its potential to enhance efficiency in modern production environments. The focus is on establishing a robust data infrastructure that integrates real-time, historical, and contextual data to create a solid basis for AI models. Reinforcement learning (RL) is applied to aid automation. A roadmap for implementation, focusing on practical application, is presented. This roadmap incorporates simulation-based training methods and outlines strategies for continuous improvement and adaptation of production processes.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 41 | 2025 | Edition 5 | Pages 86-93 | DOI 10.30844/I4SE.25.5.84
Privacy and Surveillance in the Digitalized Society

Privacy and Surveillance in the Digitalized Society

A (cyber-)ethical challenge
Matthias Schmidt
The concepts of public and private play a special role in connection with the digitalized society and thus with the ethical requirements that such a society places on cybersecurity. This is because the digitalization of society is shifting the boundaries between what can be described as public and private. Consequently, the relationship between freedom and surveillance is being put to the test. It is a question of (cyber-)ethics how far privacy should be restricted in favor of surveillance and security. (Only in German)
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 3 | Pages 10-13
City, Country or Suburbs: Key Factors in the Regional Location Planning

City, Country or Suburbs: Key Factors in the Regional Location Planning

Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung in der Metropolregion Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg
Lukas Richter, Matthias Schmidt, Peter Nyhuis ORCID Icon
Both rural and urban regions have their specific advantages for companies. In practice, the central question is, how the structure of areas can be distinguished and under which conditions companies should settle in the city, in the country or in intermediate regions. In a study, companies were surveyed about their location in the metropolitan area Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg.
Industrie Management | Volume 31 | 2015 | Edition 5 | Pages 53-56
Discussing Lot Sizing Approaches

Discussing Lot Sizing Approaches

Their influence on economic production
Ben Münzberg, Matthias Schmidt, Peter Nyhuis ORCID Icon
Lot sizing is a substantial factor of economic production. There are various lot sizing approaches considering the same cost factors in different ways. Their results are usually quite similar. A common weakness of all lot sizing approaches is the limited consideration of relevant cost factors. The costs which are neglected usually rise with increasing lot sizes. This leads to illusory exact results because too large lots are calculated generally. This paper compares functions and results of different lot sizing approaches and discusses neglected cost factors.
Industrie Management | Volume 27 | 2011 | Edition 5 | Pages 22-26
Gentelligent Technology

Gentelligent Technology

Peter Nyhuis ORCID Icon, Candy Patrick Schulze, Wiebke Hartmann, Matthias Schmidt, Felix Herde
„Gentelligence“ is a neologism and describes the property of parts to save, store and process data (intelligence) and further to pass information on to following generations of parts (genetic). Unlike existing technologies the gentelligent technology is able to store information without the physical separation of part and information. The present article highlights the potentials of gentelligent parts in assembly control and factory structuring.
Industrie Management | Volume 25 | 2009 | Edition 2 | Pages 13-16
Logistic Stock Analysis and Validation of Planning Methods

Logistic Stock Analysis and Validation of Planning Methods

Project results from the Siemens AG electronics plant in Amberg
Tim D. Busse, Matthias Schmidt, Felix S. Wriggers
The strategically appropriate dimensioning of inventory in the process chain is of utmost importance for companies. In this context inventory is utilized to counterbalance variations of the behaviour of customers as well as delivery date or quantity deviations caused by suppliers. It is a huge challenge to dimension the inventory as to realize a high level of security but also low stocks. This article demonstrates the methodical approach, the outcome of the Logistic Stock Analysis, and the validation of planning methods showcased for a project at the electronic factory of Siemens, Amberg.
Industrie Management | Volume 23 | 2007 | Edition 5 | Pages 75-78
Components as an Information Carrier Change Future Factories

Components as an Information Carrier Change Future Factories

Peter Nyhuis ORCID Icon, Frank Fisser, Matthias Schmidt
Current information technologies like bar codes or transponders offer an enormous potential to logistics of producing companies. But with these technologies the provision of information on processes or components along the value-adding chain is neither possible in real-time nor consistently. Future components should be able to store information on themselves, so that additional transponders are no longer required. This opens up new possibilities for a real-time production planning and control as well as for the segmentation and planning of factories.
Industrie Management | Volume 22 | 2006 | Edition 1 | Pages 19-22