integrated product and process modelling

The cooperative production of industrial goods and services in networks is a key success factor for a large number of companies. However, inter-organisational cooperation does not only lead to new opportunities in a competitive environment but additional risks can also arise. These risks have to be assessed and controlled by a systematic deployment of advanced risk management methods during all phases of a cooperation’s life cycle. Therefore, this article shows which approaches should be chosen and which constraints have to be considered.

production management is crucial to reduce time-to-market. Regarding ever-changing dynamic requirements that production systems have to meet there is a need of cooperative development and planning models, methods and tools. By that transparency in process organizations can be achieved as well as the availability of resources and competencies can be verified. The article de-scribes a resource-oriented collaborative engineering model to allow short and long term (re-)planning of production systems.