Digitalization is radically and sustainably changing the production environment. As a consequence, machine builders and companies operating machine tools can more flexibly address market requirements, shorten their time to market and increase their flexibility as well as efficiency. In addition to developing and manufacturing machine tools, digitalization also impacts their use in series production and in workshop-oriented production facilities (for example job shops). At the same time, the link between humans, machines and systems across the complete value-added chain is becoming increasingly more important.