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IPS presents concept for digital method toolkit at IIC 2025

Zwei Personen vor Poster zur intelligenten Produktionsplanung. © IPS​/​TU Dortmund
How can work and production planning be made sustainable? At IIC 2025, the Institute for Production Systems (IPS) at TU Dortmund University presented approaches for a digital method toolkit that combines classic industrial engineering methods with simulation, virtual reality, and AI. The article shows how research can pave the way for a flexible and intelligent planning ecosystem.

At IIC 2025, which took place on September 24 and 25 in Chemnitz, experts from industry and science came together to discuss developments in digital factory planning, production optimization, and virtual commissioning. The agenda included keynotes, best practice contributions, and technology presentations, including presentations from companies such as Boston Dynamics, Neura Robotics, and AUDI.

The Institute for Production Systems (IPS) at TU Dortmund University presented the contribution “Intelligent Planning: The Method Toolkit for the Industrial Engineering of the Future” as part of the research island. The focus was on the research initiative to develop a modular toolkit that combines classic methods such as MTM with digital tools – simulation, virtual reality, and AI-supported assistance systems.

The approach focuses on interoperability rather than isolated solutions: the aim is to combine different processes and technologies in such a way that companies can plan more quickly, efficiently, and flexibly in the future. The method toolkit is not seen as a finished product, but as a future-oriented research path that will be further developed in current and future projects.

With this contribution, the IPS demonstrates how research in industrial engineering is breaking new ground: not through individual tools, but through the systematic design of an intelligent planning ecosystem that creates long-term added value for practice and science.