Abstract
Manufacturing companies are confronted with increasing demands regarding product functionality and individualization. To meet these requirements, product variants are increasingly created by linking physical and virtual objects forming “cyber-physical systems” (CPS). Nevertheless, connecting a large number of different elements in a system results in increasing complexity which lead to higher complexity cost. In order to control complexity, the objective of this paper is to optimize the cost-benefit ratio of CPS by means of an appropriate complexity design. The cost- and benefit-based classification of a CPS allows the derivation of design recommendations for complexity-oriented product development of CPS.
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