Albrecht Fritzsche and Sascha Julian Oks contributed with three research papers to this year’s joint CIRP CMS and SPS conference in Stockholm, Sweden. They discussed comprehensive strategies for implementing cyber-physical systems, transparency in multi-objective decision making, and order management in agile, individualised production environments. Their engagement with industrial engineers at the conference strengthened our cross-disciplinary ties in research on the digital transformation ...

Digital transformation has become a goal for many companies that aim to embrace the digital age and revamp their business models and strategies. It transcends add-on features to existing channels or products and services, and encompasses many aspects of the customer experience, as well as the processes that underpin it. For many practitioners, as for scholars, the concept of digital transformation remains though fuzzy as each industry is different and the capabilities differ from one form to ...