The rapid growth of the world population, the finiteness of resources on our planet Earth and the ongoing tendency towards urbanisation result in the need to question our actions and economic activities, also for industrial enterprises. A paradigm shift to decouple growth and resource utilisation is needed. By means of ultra-efficiency, factories are targeted, whose positive impact to their surrounding is optimised instead of only minimising negative influences. In the contribution, the concept of ultra-efficient factories and first tools for their implementation are introduced. Therefore, the term ultra-efficient factory is defined based on the state of the art. On this definition, spheres of activity for ultra-efficient factories under consideration of urban surroundings are determined. For the spheres of activity, criteria to assess the according maturity of companies are identified and aggregated into a comprehensive maturity model. The maturity model enables the determination of potentials for advancements of companies. To support the industrial application of the theoretic work, industrial best practices are determined and a visual tool is developed

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Industrial enterprises are forced to cope with ever higher challenges resulting from trends like the ongoing individualization tendency which results in ever smaller lot sizes, like the limited availability of talents, and like the pressure towards ever lower emissions. A promising approach to cope with the increasing challenges is the application of new production strategies like urban manufacturing. In this contribution, a development path for companies to guide the transition towards urban manufacturing is presented. The development path is structured in seven essential perspectives which are split into five stages. Based on an as-is analysis, the starting point for the advancement of a company can be determined in the resulting raster, and consequently steps for the advancement of the company can be identified.

Kurzfassung Fachkräftemangel, immer kürzere Produktlebenszyklen und der zunehmende Bedarf an kundenindividuellen Produkten führen zu steigenden Herausforderungen für Entwicklungsabteilungen produzierender Unternehmen. Die Einbindung von externen Experten aus einer Community in firmeninterne Produktentwicklungsprozesse ist ein erfolgversprechender Ansatz für die schnellere, kostengünstigere und bedarfsangepasste Entwicklung von Produkten. Mit Crowd Engineering wird die Einbindung einer Community in eine Produktentwicklung realisiert. Dieser Beitrag soll einen Einblick in den aktuellen Forschungsstand des Crowd Engineerings geben und den Nutzen für Unternehmen aufzeigen.