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Kurzfassung Eng verknüpft mit der Entwicklung zur Industrie 4.0 steht der Begriff Smart Factory. Die nächste industrielle Revolution bietet jedoch nicht nur Potenziale in Bezug auf den Einzelstandort, sondern auch für die effiziente Vernetzung von Standorten zu einem Smart Network. Entsprechend ist Industrie 4.0 in der Lage, einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Management globaler Produktionsnetzwerke zu leisten. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird erläutert, welchen Einfluss Industrie 4.0 auf das strategische Management, die Gestaltung und die Steuerung von Produktionsnetzwerken haben kann. Dabei wird insbesondere aufgezeigt, welche Voraussetzungen auf dem Weg zu Smart Networks zu schaffen sind und inwieweit die Leistungsfähigkeit von Produktionsnetzwerken dadurch positiv beeinflusst wird.

Today, the continuous design of production networks is challenging due to their high complexity and diverging interests of individual sites. In order to increase the efficiency and agility of global producing companies, this paper presents a method that shifts the often-present focus on locations towards a market and production process oriented design approach of production networks. By subdividing the product range into product families, the complexity of decisionmaking processes is reduced. Subsequently, target conflicts between product families are resolved systematically from an overall corporate view by deriving the smallest possible holistic decision scope. The method was applied to a machine tool manufacturer.

Rapidly changing global markets force companies to consciously evaluate and adapt their production network. A common method for the evaluation of production networks is static cost and capacity modelling based scenario creation. Currently used cost models do not fully consider comprehensive aspects of financial and cost accounting, which are essential for a holistic economic efficiency calculation. The approach presented in this paper seeks to help companies to systematically choose the most economic scenario. An economic value added (EVA) based assessment method is used to consider savings and expenses on both financial and cost accounting level, including a systematic derivation of adjustment costs for restructuring the network. The approach results in a method to transfer model based static cost calculations into an economic efficiency calculation and is illustrated by the application in a real business case.

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