Editorial: System-integrated Intelligence – New Challenges for Product and Production Engineering in the Context of Industry 4.0

The editorial introduces the SysInt conference series and the motivation behind it. It describes the structure and content as well as the scientific and technological background to the SysInt 2014 event held in Bremen from July 2nd-4th, 2014, and provides an outline of the organizing institutions, detailing their individual perspectives on the general topic of system-integrated intelligence.