Solutions have been developed within the Cluster of
Excellence “Integrative Production Technology for High-
Wage Countries” at RWTH Aachen University. An advanced
approach to guarantee a high transparency during factory
planning processes is the concept of “Condition Based Factory
Planning” (CBFP). CBFP has been employed to facilitate the
factory planning process without restricting its flexibility. To
achieve this aim, the process is decomposed into standardizedplanning modules [5]. This modularity enables a detailed
analysis of the different planning tasks.