Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin-Christoph Wanner is a professor at the Fraunhofer Institute for Large Structures in Production Engineering IGP and senior professor at the Institute of Manufacturing Engineering, University of Rostock.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Schüppstuhl is the head of the Institute of Aircraft Production Technology (IFPT) at the Hamburg University of Technology.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kirsten Tracht is the head of the Bremen Institute for Mechanical Engineering (bime) at the University of Bremen.