• Preface 
  
• About the author
  
• Introduction 
  

1. Basics of facility planning
   
   1. Facility planning within operations scheduling
      
   2. Planning scopes 
      
   3. Planning principles 
      
2. Phases of a facility planning project 
   
   1. Overview of planning phases 
      
   2. Target planning 
      
   3. Pre-planning 
      
   4. Crude planning 
      
   5. Detailed-planning 
      
   6. Execution planning and execution 
      
3. Simulation in facility planning 
   
   1. Digital factory 
      
   2. Needs and fields of application for simulation in facility planning 
      
   3. Basics of modeling and simulation 
      
   4. Basic principle of simulation 
      
   5. Procedure (steps of the simulation) 
      
4. Development trends of facility planning 
   
   1. Global Facility Planning 
      
   2. Cooperative facility planning and versatility
      
   3. Facility planning within Industry 4.0 
      

• Bibliography 
  
• List of figures 
  
• List of tables 
  

This book is intended for students of the natural and engineering sciences (especially mechanical and industrial engineers, logisticians and aerospace engineers), as well as students of business administration.
The subjects discussed have been intentionally selected with a strong practical orientation in mind. The book was created as part of lectures, seminars and laboratory exercises that the author has held for years at the Technical University Wildau. Additionally, the experience of industrial assignments and the supervision of diploma and bachelor theses helped refine the content matter.
Due to the complexity but also the currency of the subject matter, there is a large number of widely differing textbooks available.