Framework for Integrated Analysis of Production Systems

Production companies act in increasingly complex and dynamic environments. Facing numerous influencing and closely interconnected factors within production systems, companies are forced to cope with economic and to an increasing degree with ecological objective criteria in order to meet market and legal demands. This leads to complex decision situations regarding planning, operation, and optimization efforts of production systems. This paper presents an integrated framework for production system analysis that allows to analyze the interrelations between economic and ecological factors in the context of production system optimization.