Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: summa cum laude, University Karlsruhe (TH) (Institut fur Fordertechnik und Logistiksysteme), language: English, abstract: To increase the flexibility of application of continuous conveyor systems, a completely decentralized control system for a modular conveyor system is introduced in the paper. This system is able to carry conveyor units without any centralized infrastructure. Based on existing methods of decentralized data transfer in IT networks, single modules...