Customers and their requirements are increasingly influencing product development and production processes and at the same time products are becoming more and more individualized. Thus, individualization is no longer restricted to the final products; it increasingly influences all process of companies. New strategies and methods for an effective and flexible management of the production system […]
Purpose – Knowledge and innovation have always played a crucial role in economic and social development (Kefala, 2010). As enterprises are facing constantly transforming framework conditions knowledge and innovation continue to gain importance in research and practice as means to realise sound economic, social and ecologic development. As mere product or incremental process innovations are […]