The customer-oriented individual production, as part of the future project “Industry 4.0”, is based on the progressive shortening of development cycles. The parallel to the material flow directed flow of information gains in importance for a decentralized material flow control. The use of this newly available information through the production systems requires cognitive abilities on the machines. For this, future machines as well as handling and transport systems should communicate, identify problems, make their own conclusions, learn and plan. For this purpose Cyber-Physical Production Systems are the technological foundation.
