Within this project the heavy industry will be considered as user group, especially the metal industry. Manufacturing enterprises and their production processes need to become more flexible, in order to be able to respond to the increased requirements related to the product quality and variety.

Finally the employees make the decisions, along the entire value-adding chain and in the various hierarchy levels, which influence the production process and the production planning and ensure the economic success. A secure, transparent and real-time provision of production- and process data will become more and more important for those decisions.

This data must be offered to the staff to the work support in a simple, reliable and intuitive way. It is the context in which the data is needed which has to be automatically detected and considered. The role of the user as well as the respective production situation and production location must therefore be recognized and evaluated.