The present master thesis has been written in context of a double-degree program with the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) and the Tongji University in Shanghai (China). The research and writing process started in November 2014 and went until July 2015. The vision for this thesis and the corresponding research questions have been jointly developed with my thesis supervisor, Mr. Daniel Roy, who was research associate at the logistics chair of Mr. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Straube at the Technical University of Berlin at that time. The fact, that we could possibly lay at least a small part of foundation in the barely unexplored field of “Industry 4.0” has considerably driven our motivation during the whole research project. I would like to thank my supervisor for his excellent guidance and support during this process. I also like to thank all of the respondents of my questionnaire, without whose cooperation I would not have been able to conduct the master thesis’ results. Special thanks goes to my family and friends. I benefitted from debating issues and developing cooperatively new ideas.

本硕士论文是在德国柏林理工大学和上海同济大学的双学位课程背景下撰写的。研究和写作过程始于2014年11月，一直持续到2015年7月。本论文的构想和相应的研究问题是与我的论文导师Daniel Roy先生共同制定的，他是Ing博士教授的物流主席的研究助理。弗兰克·斯特劳伯当时在柏林技术大学工作。事实上，我们可以在“工业4”这个几乎未被开发的领域中至少占有一小部分基础，在整个研究项目中大大推动了我们的动机。我要感谢我的主管在这一过程中给予的出色指导和支持。我还要感谢我的问卷调查的所有答卷人，没有他们的合作，我就无法完成硕士论文的研究成果。特别感谢我的家人和朋友。我从讨论问题和合作开发新想法中受益匪浅。我妻子应该特别感谢你：你明智的建议和友好的话语一如既往地对我很有帮助，帮助我保持专注。