Motivation The production of high-quality products in the smallest lot sizes requires highly flexible and complex production systems in which the human actor is indispensable. The direct collaborative cooperation between humans and machines is reliant on innovative interaction concepts, which

Motivation Manufacturing enterprises of the future are networked and built around sensor-networks und algorithms of artificial intelligence. Sustainable decisions are made by teams of human and artificial actors in order to adapt to changing environmental conditions. The enterprise is a

Motivation Due to continuously rising complexity in the increasing networked, flexible, and individualized production within industry 4.0, employees need effective decision support systems. Thereby the ever-growing volume of data describing the production offers unforeseen opportunities on the one hand but

Motivation Cognitive products in production systems of the future are products that can reason using substantial amounts of appropriately represented knowledge, learn from their experience so that they perform better tomorrow than they did today, explain themselves and be told

Motivation Cognitive Production Systems (Area 4.2) and Cognitive Products (Area 4.1) represent the application-driven integration areas of Pro2Future that are responsible for the consolidation of research results from the Areas 1, 2 and 3 and hence for the transfer of