Energy-Related Material Flow Simulation in Production and Logistics (PDF)

Markus Rabe is a full professor for IT in Production and Logistics (ITPL) at TU Dortmund University. Until 2010, he had been with Fraunhofer IPK in Berlin as the head of the corporate logistics and processes department, head of the central IT department, and a member of the institute direction circle. His research focus is on information systems for supply chains, production planning, and simulation. Markus Rabe is a vice chair of the "Simulation in Production and Logistics" section of the simulation society ASIM, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Simulation, and member of several conference program committees and has chaired the ASIM SPL conference in 1998, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2015, and is a local chair of the WSC'2012 in Berlin and proceedings chair of the WSC'18 and WSC'19. More than 220 publications and editions report from his work.



Steffen Straßburger is a professor at the Ilmenau University of Technology and head of the Group for Information Technology in Production and Logistics. Previously, he was the head of the "Virtual Development" department at the Fraunhofer Institute in Magdeburg, Germany, and a researcher at the DaimlerChrysler Research Center in Ulm, Germany. He holds a doctoral and a diploma degree in Computer Science from the University of Magdeburg, Germany. His research interests include distributed simulation, automatic simulation model generation, and general interoperability topics within the digital factory and Industry 4.0 context.

Christoph Von Viebahn is a professor for business informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Hannover. He is specialized in supply chain management and dynamic computer simulation. In 2016, he was elected regional group spokesman for Lower Saxony by the Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) and has been awarded with the science award of Lower Saxony in 2022.





Sigrid Wenzel is a professor and head of the Department of Production Organization and Factory