1. Why Data Management in Insufficient
Factories are highly complex socio-technical products
[1]. Westkämper stated this paradigm in 2005 but it is
still up to date and its implementation holds great
potential for the manufacturing industries. They are
caught in a crossfire of influences that determines the
increasing need for flexibility and transformability [2].
Due to the global competition, they have to be able to
react in a fast way without great effort on changing
conditions to ensure economic efficiency. New or legacy
products, new technologies on product or production
side or new requirements coming from the market
induce the continuous adaption of existing production
facilities [2]. The key success factor influencing all
scales of a factory (figure 2) and its transformability is
manufacturing knowledge [3]. It is composed of data
that is needed for planning and operating production
systems. But these data have not only to be stored.