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For 30 years, the biannual ASIM Conference on Simulation in Production and Logistics presents new developments and interesting applications of simulation. This largest European simulation conference is well balanced between research, technical development and industrial use. Scientific innovation is discussed as well as the successful application in every day's business, with a total of 73 papers in these 2015 proceedings. An important topic field is the combination of simulation with optimisation techniques, especially with heuristic algorithms (simheuristics). Many papers discuss logistics topics, from intralogistics to supply chains, transport logistics and logistics of construction sites. Production planning and material management are broadly present, too. Also, simulation of manufacturing systems is in the focus, enriched by the aspect of energy consumption. Further contributions cover new methods and auxiliary procedures and systems. From the papers in these proceedings, 28 are in English and 45 in German with an English abstract.

The strength of the European economy in the global competition has two significant foundations. The first one is the ability to provide highly specific and customer-centred products on short-term requests. The second one, which is clearly related to the first one, is the huge number of very efficient manufacturing networks. The network companies supplement and support each other in terms of capabilities and capacities, and thus achieve services that would be infeasible or uncompetitive for a single network member. This book presents novel results from research projects that are co-funded by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Programme, demonstrating the progress in the management of production units and production networks with the ambition of utmost flexibility and cooperation efficiency, amended by perspectives of future research to be addressed.

The strength of the European economy in the global competition has two significant foundations. The first one is the ability to provide higly specific and customer-centred products on short-term requests. The second one, which is clearly related to the first one, is the huge number of very efficient manufacturing networks. The network companies supplement and support each other in terms of capabilities and capacities, and thus achieve services that would be infeasible or uncompetitive for a single network member. This book presents novel results from research projects that are co-funded by the EUropean Commission in the 6th Framework Programme, demonstrating the progress in the management of production units and production networks with the ambition of utmost flexibility and cooperation efficiency, amended by perspectives of future research to be addressed.