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Niklas Friederichsen
Researcher at RWTH Aachen University
Publications - 5
Citations - 1313
Niklas Friederichsen is an academic researcher from RWTH Aachen University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quality (business) & Flexibility (engineering). The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 1164 citations.
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How Virtualization, Decentralization and Network Building Change the Manufacturing Landscape: An Industry 4.0 Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the developments of Industry 4.0 within the literature and review the associated research streams. And they assess the practical implications, conducting face-to-face interviews with managers from the industry as well as from the consulting business.
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The Relevance of Manufacturing Flexibility in the Context of Industrie 4.0
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the relationships between flexibility and performance by systematically charting empirical findings from the literature and to link this development to the advancements of manufacturing schemes of Industrie 4.0, proposed by Schuh et al.
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Effectuation in Manufacturing: How Entrepreneurial Decision-making Techniques can be used to Deal with Uncertainty in Manufacturing☆
TL;DR: In this paper, a case-study-based approach is used to assess how production managers can apply decision-making principals of successful entrepreneurs to handle the uncertainty of mass customization, to seek the right partners in alliances and to advance towards virtual production.
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Towards a Technology-Oriented Theory of Production
Günther Schuh,Malte Brettel,Christina Reuter,David Bendig,Christian Dölle,Niklas Friederichsen,Annika Hauptvogel,Thomas Kießling,Till Potente,Jan-Philipp Prote,Anja Ruth Weber,Bartholomäus Wolff +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a technology-oriented theory of production that operationalizes the link between technological advances and possibilities to strengthen the four competitive priorities of manufacturing companies in high-wage countries.
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Increasing the Problem Solving Speed Through Effectual Decision Making
TL;DR: It is discovered, that embracing the unexpected as one of the four effectual dimensions has a positive impact on the problem solving speed in highly uncertain situations.