Reducing the structural complexity of growing organizational systems by means of axiomatic designed networks of core competence cells

SME Requirements and Guidelines for the Design of Smart and Highly Adaptable Manufacturing Systems

“…The basic meaning of I4.0 lies in connecting products, machines, and people with the environment and combining production, information technology, and the internet (Kagermann et al 2013). Industry, especially in high-wage countries, must introduce these types of smart production strategies to maintain the current competitive advantage in the long-term competing on a global market (Manhart 2017). To remain competitive, lead times, flexibility, and the ability to produce many individual kinds of products in low batch sizes or batch sizes of one, must improve (Spath et al 2013;Matt and Rauch 2013a).…”

Axiomatic Design of Agile Manufacturing Systems

“…Initially, wealth is created when growing market demand for new or "hip" products generates new jobs and promotes productivity and growth. However, quantitative economic growth is limited (Matt, 2007) and when it turns to be artificially maintained on an only speculative basis, the economic system is going to collapse. Analyzing analogical behaviors in natural and other systems, we understand that the reason for this lays in the interaction of a system's elements in terms of causal or feedback loops (O'Connor & McDermott, 1998).…”

Functional periodicity as a concept for the (re-)design to agility of production systems

“…Initially, wealth is created when growing market demand for new or ''hip'' products generates new jobs and promotes productivity and growth. However, quantitative growth is always limited [1] and when it turns to be artificially maintained on an only speculative basis, the economic system is going to collapse. According to Nam Suh, the economic cycle is a good example of time-dependent combinatorial complexity at work [2].…”