System-Integrated Intelligence – New Challenges for Product and Production Engineering

The editorial introduces the SysInt conference series and the motivation behind it. It describes the structures and content as well as the scientific and technological background to the SysInt 2016 event held in Paderborn from June 13th – 15th, 2016, and provides an outline of the organizing institutions, detailing their individual perspectives on the general topic of system-integrated intelligence. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of SysInt 2016.