The engineering of production systems is a multi- disciplinary engineering activity covering several engineering disciplines and forming a closely knitted engineering network. This engineering network engineering can also be called engineering chain.

Conference (Lueder2018) Lüder, A.; Pauly, J.-L.; Rosendahl, R.; Rinker, F. & Biffl, S. Support for Engineering Chain Migration towards Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Chains 14th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2018 [CDL-SQI]