Reconfigurable manufacturing systems and environment consciousness

In the past, manufacturing systems were configured once for a stable environment. But today, enterprises face a turbulent environment. Enterprises therefore have to be adaptable to it's permanently changing environment. This means, enterprises have to overcome the old procedures and have to be able to configure there organizations continuously - we call it reconfigurability. Our work deals with the reconfigurability, of future manafacturing systems. Looking on those systems we have to consider seven dimensions. In this paper we limit ourselves on the dimension organization, product, and information systems.