Forecasting Next Generation Manufacturing

How Digital Shadows, New Forms of Human-Machine Collaboration, and Data-Driven Business Models Are Driving the Future of Industry 4.0: A Delphi Study.- Applying the Real-Time Delphi Method to Next Generation Manufacturing.- Big Picture of Next Generation Manufacturing.- Governance Structures in Next Generation Manufacturing.- Organization Routines in Next Generation Manufacturing.- Capability Configuration in Next Generation Manufacturing.- Interface Design in Next Generation Manufacturing.- Resilience Drivers in Next Generation Manufacturing.- Future Scenarios and the Most Probable Future for Next Generation Manufacturing.- Hybrid Intelligence in Next Generation Manufacturing: An Outlook on New Forms of Collaboration Between Human and Algorithmic Decision-Makers in the Factoryof the Future.

Frank T. Piller has headed the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) since 2007. Earlier, he worked at the MIT Sloan School of Management (USA) and was an Assistant Professor of Management at the TUM Business School, Munich, Germany from 1999 to 2004. Frank Piller has worked as a consultant and delivered executive workshops for many international companies, including several DAX30 and Fortune 500 corporations. As a member of their board of directors or board of scientific advisors, he works with a number of innovative technology companies to bring his research into practice. His current research focuses on the need for established corporations to cope with the challenge of digital transformation and similar disruptive technology innovations. He is the chairman of a cross-industry group hosted by VDI (Association of German Engineers) to develop standards in the field of platform-based digital business models.

Verena Nitsch studied applied psychology at Charles Sturt University in Australia and the University of Central Lancashire in the UK before completing her master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology at Manchester Business School. She completed her doctorate in engineering in the field of human-technology interaction at the Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany), where she became a Professor of Cognitive Ergonomics and headed the Human Factors Institute (IfA) from 2016 to 2018. Since June 2018, she is a Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics at RWTH Aachen University (Germany). She is also currently Head of the Department of Product and Process Ergonomics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and Ergonomics in Germany.


Dirk Lüttgens heads the research clusters on open innovation and business model innovation at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management, RWTH