Dezentrale Taktsteuerung in der Montage

over monolithic central systems that combine all functions in one or a few instances. However, the practical implementation requires the adaptation of the general concept of decentralization to the individual and specific use cases, especially with re-gard to its meaningful extent. One use case is the assem- bly of multiävariant products. This paper shows how a the appropriate combination of centralized and decentralized approaches achieves a better planning and increase of throughput. With a flexible cycle control of the worksta- tions and suitable assistance at the assembly workstation, the previous workshop-oriented organization is trans- formed to a series-like production. This is done by using a multi-layered infrastructure that follows Industry 4.0 para- digms of decentralized information processing by autono-mous networked systems.