The holistic ambidextrous Latin for "two-handed" approach, which refers to connecting and networking all areas along the value chain, is intended to close gaps for future production systems.
To this end, a high level of stability in production must be ensured "on the one hand" and a rapid response to global market turbulence must be guaranteed "on the other hand". Manufacturing companies are increasingly facing a wide range of strategic challenges in order to be efficient and at the same time agile in their actions and thus also capable of change.
Currently available production systems often only include principles, methods and digital tools to increase resource efficiency. Due to the rigid structures, fast reactions to fluctuations in demand and supply chain problems are hardly possible. This is to be changed by combining efficiency- and agility-oriented principles and with the help of Industrie 4.
In order to be able to implement this organizational change in companies, the development of an ambidextrous management approach as well as a learning-coaching strategy for further education are planned as a supplement. This vision was jointly developed and agreed upon by all project participants at the kick-off. In the course of the project, it is intended to serve as a guide, but also be alive and adapted if parts of the content no longer match the shared vision.
Our research will enable manufacturing companies to achieve an appropriate balance between the known and the new. They will thus be capable of taking advantage of best practices while at the same time seizing opportunities from innovations.
