TY - JFULL AU - K. Knüppel and G. Meyer and P. Nyhuis PY - 2014/3/ TI - A Universal Approach to Categorize Failures in Production T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 239 EP - 243 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997306 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 86, 2014 N2 - The increasing interconnectedness and complexity of  production processes raise the susceptibility of production systems to  failure. Therefore, the ability to respond quickly to failures is  increasingly becoming a competitive factor. The research project  "Sustainable failure management in manufacturing SMEs" is  developing a methodology to identify failures in the production and  select preventive and reactive measures in order to correct failures  and to establish sustainable failure management systems.   ER -