This book contains the description of machines and systems as investments goods in production. These machines have a technological and economical life cycle over the time used. By explaining the paradigms of life cycle management, the book describes how the life cycle of such investment goods can be designed, operated and optimized to deliver maximum benefit in industrial environment. Additional examples from industry including case studies and calculations demonstrate practical applications and deliver benefit not only for academic or educational purpose but also for industrial practitioners.

Life cycle design is understood as "to develop" (to plan, to calculate, to define, to draw) a holistic concept for the entire life cycle of a product." Life cycle design means a one time planning during the concept phase of a product in which the pathway of a product over the entire life cycle is determined. So e.g. the planning of possible services for a product during its utilization phase, the way of material recycling, how and which parts can be reused, how the logistics for recycling will be organised or how the product can be used afterwards. So it is a conceptual pre-design of all later activities over the life cycle.

By this understanding the book delivers a really holistic approach because before a product is physically made a life-long concept and utilization scenarios with closed material and information cycles have to be developed. This promotes a real "thinking in product (life) cycles."

The book addresses professionals as well as researchers and students in the field of product life cycle management. Different methods in the field of product design, operation and recycling will be presented and finally merge to an integrated method of product life cycle design. Readers will benefit from the holistic approach which enables them to design successful products by the implementation of closed loop product life cycles.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI conference, held in Dusseldorf, Germany, in September 2020*. The 50 full papers and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on visionary papers, SPI manifesto and improvement strategies, SPI and emerging software and systems engineering paradigms, SPI and standards and safety and security norms, SPI and team performance & agile & innovation, SPI and agile, emerging software engineering paradigms, digitalisation of industry, infrastructure and e-mobility, good and bad practices in improvement, functional safety and cybersecurity, experiences with agile and lean, standards and assessment models, recent innovations, virtual reality. *The conference was partially held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Life cycle design is understood as "to develop" (to plan, to calculate, to define, to draw) a holistic concept for the entire life cycle of a product." Life cycle design means a one time planning during the concept phase of a product in which the pathway of a product over the entire life cycle is determined. So e.g. the planning of possible services for a product during its utilization phase, the way of material recycling, how and which parts can be reused, how the logistics for recycling will be organised or how the product can be used afterwards. So it is a conceptual pre-design of all later activities over the life cycle.

By this understanding the book delivers a really holistic approach because before a product is physically made a life-long concept and utilization scenarios with closed material and information cycles have to be developed. This promotes a real "thinking in product (life) cycles."

The book addresses professionals as well as researchers and students in the field of product life cycle management. Different methods in the field of product design, operation and recycling will be presented and finally merge to an integrated method of product life cycle design. Readers will benefit from the holistic approach which enables them to design successful products by the implementation of closed loop product life cycles.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1,0, Universitat Paderborn (Unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Problemstellung: Die Absatzmarkte der Industrie sind heute durch einen stetigen Wandel der Rahmenbedingungen gekennzeichnet. Nicht zuletzt durch die steigende Globalisierung der Markte und der damit verbundenen verstarkten Konkurrenz von Anbietern auf den Absatzmarkten entwickelt sich das Verhaltnis von Kunden und Lieferanten tendenziell vom Verkaufermarkt hin zu einem Kaufermarkt. In der Stahlindustrie vollzog sich dieser Wandel im Bereich der europaischen Union besonders drastisch. Seit der Offnung der Grenzen im Osten ist ein verscharfter Kampf zwischen den Unternehmen dieser Branche um Marktanteile entbrannt. Immer mehr Unternehmen aus den ehemaligen Ostblockstaaten drangen in die internationalen Markte und setzen mit ihren kostengunstigeren Produkten die ubrigen Anbieter erheblich unter Druck. Die gegenwartige Marktlage der stahlerzeugenden und stahlverarbeitenden Industrie ist durch weltweite Uberkapazitaten und einen damit verbundenen Preisverfall fur Stahlprodukte gekennzeichnet. Die Auswirkungen dieser veranderten Marktstrukturen schlugen sich auch in den Betriebsergebnissen der -JoNie- AG A Stadt nieder. Das Unternehmen ist auf dem Gebiet der Stahlverarbeitung tatig, wobei ein grosser Teil des Geschaftsvolumens traditionell auf die Produktion von Stahlrohren entfallt. Aufgrund der Konkurrenzsituation ist die momentane Auftragslage des Unternehmens durch eine geringere Nachfrage bei zudem rucklaufigen Preisen auf diesem Segment gekennzeichnet. Dadurch hat sich der Druck auf die inlandischen Produktionsgesellschaften in diesem Jahr weiter verstarkt, denn die Material- und Personalkostenerhohungen konnten nicht an den Kunden weitergegeben werden. Die -JoNie- Rohrwerke sind gezwungen, sich den geanderten Anforderungen des Wettbewerbs zu stellen. Daher ergibt sich die zwingende Notwendigk