The field of facility planning is characterised by planning, realising and operating production systems in particular as well as an entire factory with its main, auxiliary and secondary fields. Facility planning covers a wide range of topics: from an integrated product and process organisation or developing production systems to dimensioning, structuring and designing. Furthermore, facility planning deals with setting up and running a factory (this includes for example; project management, logistics of production or production planning and control). In this context, special methods, data models, tools, performance measurement instruments and case studies are presented.

Quests for a sustainable development are dealt by the fields of factory ecology, disposal logistics and environmental management.

The research projects of the Facility Planning Team concentrate on the following main topics:

• production system and factory planning
• logistics of production
• production organisation - production control
• factory ecology and disposal logistics
• computer aided factory design - CAFD
• industrial facility planning
• facility management
• technical project management