Based on many years of experience as a management consultant in different industries and cor-porate structures and cultures, the motivation to use digital transformation in connection with variable corporate goals – such as fluctuating workloads, agile response to customer inquiries, ecological and economic sustainability – results in a process or a product to be developed that in-telligently adapts to market requirements and requires forward-looking leadership. Using an AI-based methodical analysis and synthesis approach, the high consumption of economic and human resources is to be continuously monitored and optimization measures initiated at an early stage. The necessary information technology with its infrastructure and architecture is the starting point to accompany the agility and changeability of corporate goals. Researching the relevant documents begins with writing the panorama or the state of knowledge on the topic. This session is about the IT infrastructure based on the requirements for an architecture and behavior that a versatile, agile company needs to accompany the constantly changing framework conditions of the market. The technology used and the available resources, including the human resources, need to be adapted as early as possible. Future industrial manufacturing systems must make better use of the available data. Low-level data must be transformed into useful and intelligent information and services integrated to support decision-making. In addition, future manufacturing systems must be productive, flexible, competitive, sustainable and safe. They must be designed in such a way that the waste of material, capital, energy and media is greatly reduced. Herein we therefore discuss the fulfilling of agile customer requirements involving adaptable and modulated produc-tion processes (related to the ‘agile manufacturing’ and ‘digital transformation’ perspectives).

The audience will have an impression after this presentation …

• … how in the future the productive trade will be able to adapt very quickly to the current rapidly changing requirements.
• … how the continuous market analysis for their industry can look like
• … how the internal manufacturing and organizational structures should adapt for this kind of agility and changeability.
• … how the management culture has to look like for this purpose