WÜRZBURG, Germany, Jan. 16, 2017 — Today’s car factories are leaning toward having one production line suitable to manufacture frequent model changes and smaller volumes. This requires increased flexibility in production, more robots and a higher level of digitization. Andreas Nüchter, professor of Computer Science at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) of Wurzburg, is working to achieve this goal. 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