Research profile Management and organization of product development work. Focus on organizations with a short product development time and inter-functional teams. Productivity analyses of product development work. Integration between product development and process development, modularization - strategies for managing product variety. Production concepts - development and operation.
Productivity analyses of new production concepts.
Organizational concepts and models for the rapid introduction of products and processes. Production strategies and their implementation within companies. Maintenance questions within integrated production systems. Implementation of total productive maintenance. Production concepts for repetitive tasks with the focus on eliminating work-related musculoskeletal disorders and producing high productivity and meaningful tasks.