An important strategic decision within the food industry is to achieve the optimal product portfolio allowing an organization to support its customers in the best possible way. Numerous models exist to categorize products based on their relative metrics like revenue, volume, margin or...

Manufacturing Systems, Manufacturing Processes, Product State, Accumulating State Vector, Quality, Machine Learning, Feature Selection, Holistic Data and Information Management. - The developed concept allows identifying relevant state drivers of complex, multi-stage manufacturing systems...

Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of 'cannibalizing' sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is no...

Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of "cannibalizing" sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is no...

Ziel der variantengerechten Gestaltung ist es, Produktfamilien zu entwickeln, die eine große marktseitige Vielfalt mit einer minimalen internen Vielfalt bereitstellen. Dazu wird eine Methode präsentiert, die alle Schritte der Produktenwicklung mit einbezieht und ein entwickeltes Idealbild...