Modern production systems face enormous challenges due to rising customer requirements resulting in complex production systems. The operational efficiency in the competitive industry is ensured by an adequate production control system that manages all operations in order to optimize key...

1. Introduction -- Part I: The Basics of Global Manufacturing Management -- 2. The St.Gallen Management Model for International Manufacturing Networks -- 3. Operational Excellence: The St.Gallen Model for Holistic Optimization -- Part II Managing Manufacturing Site & Network Optimization -- 4....

There are plenty of human-centred research questions in production science. So far, the focus of the analysis is skewed towards technical considerations. Decision experiments, however, provide a promising approach to gain insights from a human perspective by using learning factories as...