Alexander Kreyenborg

TU Dortmund University | TUD · Chair of Enterprise Logistics

In complex supply chains, digital platforms play an emerging role as an infrastructure for network-based collaboration of industrial companies to stay competitive. Participating in a platform business offers a range of new potentials, while also introducing new challenges. Awareness of these is crucial for both users and providers to make informed...

Data is nowadays considered as a key resource and represents the most valuable asset of our technology-driven world. However, the ability to use this resource in a value-adding way requires a holistic perspective. Small-and medium-sized enterprises in particular face major challenges in the innovation and development process. Despite preliminary re...

In diesem Whitepaper wird ein Überblick über wichtige Grundlagen in Bezug auf die plattformbasierte Wertschöpfung gegeben. Folgend wird eine Studie ausgewertet, die sich mit den Kernthemen Services und Plattformen befasst. Schließlich wird die Infrastruktur der Wertschöpfungsplattform des Forschungsprojektes SealedServices vorgestellt und mögliche...

The ongoing shift to solution-oriented business models and growing digitalization lead to an increasing importance of services in manufacturing industry. Machine manufacturers in particular struggle to grasp the extent of transformational impact enabled or required by service developments. This is due to a narrow perspective on specific service cha...

Das Paper zeigt Ergebnisse aus dem BMBF-Projekt »Innovationslabor – Hybride Dienstleistungen in der Logistik« und stellt eine Zusammenschau aufeinander aufbauender und ineinander verzahnter Arbeiten vor, die die dynamische Organisation beschreibt.

Recent technical achievements in the areas of cloud and edge computing, distributed ledger technology, and artificial intelligence are strengthening the culture of innovation and leading to profound changes in many industrial business areas. Small and medium-sized companies in particular are facing increasingly complex market requirements that can...

Digital Transformation in logistics and supply chain management is a challenge and a big chance for companies at the same time. It can open new business areas by providing new products and services. However, as promising as the digital transformation looks, the challenges for a successful transformation are not to underestimate. Many companies fail...

For three decades, researchers have investigated the transformation from pure product-oriented manufacturers to comprehensive solution providers. However, there is a lack of research for small and medium-sized manufacturers, struggling to estimate the effort required to develop complex industrial solutions. As a result, the limited resources are mi...

The machinery and equipment industry is, next to the automotive industry, the sector with the highest turnover in Germany. Here, servitization is a crucial contribution to remain competitive. Nevertheless, the diversity of this industry is not sufficiently taken into account in the scientific community. To overcome this gap, this study utilizes a w...

In the face of globalized markets and increasing service orientation, companies are faced with the challenge of realigning their value creation processes and, in particular, exploiting the potential of digitization. Digital networking and increasing efforts to create platform-based business models are not merely side effects, but are regarded as an...

In der Ko-Produktion industrieller Dienstleistungen verbergen sich enorme Potenziale. Es fehlt jedoch an einer einheitlichen Sprache, die eine effiziente und sichere Vernetzung von unterschiedlichen Unternehmen auf Netzwerkebene ermöglicht. Der Beitrag präsentiert den Lösungsansatz der Sealed Services. Unter Wahrung der Datensicherheit, -souveränit...

Digital lifecycle records provide a high potential for securing and passing of plant-specific information. Today, however, their use is limited to individual life phases and in-house applications. Further use cases such as the use in the context of an inter-company knowledge management are not yet implemented. The potentials and challenges of digit...

Autonomous control methods (ACMs) are considered as a promising approach to deal with an increasingly dynamic and complex production environment. However, existing ACMs do not sufficiently utilize the potential arising out of the plannability offered by condition based maintenance orders in the context of predictive maintenance when doing dynamic a...

The development of industrial product service systems (IPSS) and the associated increased value proposition through individual service bundles is becoming highly relevant for manufacturing companies. However, the transformation from product- to solution-oriented business models - called Servitization -faces a number of challenges, especially for me...