Niklas Jahn

Hamburg University of Technology | TUHH · Institute of Production Management and Technology

Technology development opens up for new possibilities to facilitate the production processes through digital information systems. To optimize the systems’ value, the form, content, and medium must fit the needs of the workers. This article aims to contribute to the discussion on value, use and design of digital assistance systems for production. It...

Sustainability is gaining importance and the economy is changing into a circular economy, especially with regard to climate change and the need to create more resilient value chains. The organization of work is meeting these challenges with, among other things, the digitalization of increasingly changeable production. Collecting and understanding d...

Disruptions inevitably occur in complex one-off projects causing effort and costs and delaying the progress. Nevertheless, disruption management is often inadequate in practice. Disruptions are only recorded locally and related information is documented in an unstructured manner. Many disruptions can only be solved by the interaction of several ope...

Industrial Augmented Reality (IAR) has proven its potential in ETO industry by improving productivity and acting as a key technology for consistent digital information flows. In order to leverage these potentials on a significant scale, broad distribution of IAR inside a company should be aimed for. However, most applications have not yet overcome...

Weil Reeder und Eigner von Kreuzfahrtschiffen, Luxusyachten und anderen Spezialschiffen immer neue Ausstattungen und Attraktionen wie Aussichtsgondeln oder Achterbahnen nachfragen, ist der Schiffbau in Deutschland heute in weiten Teilen eine Unikatproduktion.