Born in 1957, Peter Nyhuis studied mechanical engineering at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. He completed his PhD at the universitya (TM)s Institute of Production Systems and Logistics (IFA) in 1991 and his habilitation there in the field of production logistics in 1999. In the same year, he began working as a project manager and partner at Siemens SPLS Supply Chain Consulting in Munich. Since 2003, he has been appointed both as a professor for Production Systems, Logistics and Work Sciences as well as the director of the Institute of Pr...