These requirements result in multiple challenges. To ensure
a high flexibility for short-term changes in factory planning
projects, the planning process has to be analyzed more
precisely. Dependencies between process steps have to be
more transparent than they are today in order to increase
traceability of changes within the planning process and their
effects on production. Such an analysis of process
dependencies has to take into account that knowledge within
factory planning processes is dispersed among different
experts and is used in independently developed methods [4].
Additionally, for the quantitative evaluation of the planning
success and a systematic decision support during the planning
process, enhanced information processing techniques are
needed