Yuxi Wang Author

Joachim Metternich heads the Institute for Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW) in Darmstadt, Germany. After studying industrial engineering and completing his doctorate at the TH Darmstadt, he worked for several German companies at national and international production sites during his 11 years in industry. Most recently, he was responsible for the global production system of a mechanical engineering company before returning to TU Darmstadt. His research focuses on the area of lean value streams and the use of digitalization and machine learning for the further development of lean production.

Marvin Müller is Customer Success Manager at SFM Systems GmbH, working to further develop and introduce digital daily management for industrial customers. In 2022, he completed his dissertation on text mining in digital daily management at the Institute for Production Management, Technology, and Machine Tools (PTW) at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Christian Hertle is the founder and Managing Director of SFM Systems GmbH and is responsible for Business Development. He worked at the Institute of Production Management, Technology, and Machine Tools (PTW) at TU Darmstadt for several years on daily management and its digitalization before completing his dissertation on skills development in daily management in 2017. Since 2018, he has been supporting companies with the digitalization of their daily management at SFM Systems.

Lukas Longard (M. Sc.) has been a chief engineer and doctoral student at the Institute of Production Management, Technology, and Machine Tools (PTW) at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, since 2019. His research focuses on the further development and introduction of data-driven approaches in digital daily management and performance management systems. As part of his work at the institute, he advises SMEs on the topics of digitalization and lean production.

Yuxi Wang (M. Sc.) has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute of Production Management, Technology, and Machine Tools (PTW) at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, since 2021. Her main research area is the data-based decision support system for deviation management on the shop floor.