Based on the Cluster of Excellence, theories are developed that combine economical, ecological, and social aspects for the producing industry with the help of necessary methods and equipment.

The aim of the academic researchers is to contribute seminal and sustainable production technologies to help enterprises with the problems of the location.

It has to be the concern of high-wage countries to evaluate and define the conditions under which domestic businesses can successfully develop and produce corresponding products.

The Cluster of Excellence aims at developing a viable, production-scientific strategy and theory of production including necessary technology approaches.

Various issues of individualisation, virtualisation and hybridisation of industrial production, self-optimisation are addressed, which are divided in four Integrative Cluster Domains (ICD).

The planning of production processes is characterised by unlinked simulations of specific aspects, which are based on standard assumption.