Abstract
Since most of today’s industrial products are characterized by high complexity and numerous customer-specific variants, flexible and adaptive production system concepts are needed to meet market and customer requirements. At the same time, these production systems have to be highly competitive in terms of cost per unit. This paper introduces a concept for the design of lean and agile production systems with the help of axiomatic designed production module templates. The objective of these generic templates is to help system designers to adapt a production module to their specific requirements in a very fast and efficient way.