Publications
Publishing specialised information
The FIR publishes a variety of specialised information in various media formats. Some of the FIR media are:
Journal “Unternehmen der Zukunft” (Company of the future) - short “UdZ”
The UdZ is issued three times per year and reports about current events and findings in the fields of service management, information management and production management. To find out more, please visit: www.unternehmen-der-zukunft.de.
Doctoral theses
FIR employees’ theses can be consulted in the FIR’s library. Since October 1997, most of these theses and other FIR reports have been published by Shaker Verlag in a series called “Rationalisierung”.
DIN-PAS
The PAS is a publicly available specification that describes products, systems or services by defining characteristics and requirements. Its big advantage is that it can be published much faster than a standard, since it does not require the full consensus of all interested parties. Therefore it is possible to meet market requirements by closing the gap between industrial and consensus-based standardisation. Jointly with Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), FIR has already published numerous PAS.
Reference books
FIR is involved in the publication of several reference books in the fields of service management, information management and product management.
Marktspiegel Business Software
The FIR and the FIR spin-off Trovarit jointly publish the “Marktspiegel Business Software”. It offers an overview of the market of business software for special application areas and is based on regular analyses carried out by the FIR.
Editions
Our editions include extensive information about current and future developments in the research areas. This provides Germany’s most important industries with the latest information.
Our editions can be found on the following website: www.fir-edition.de. Many of the publications will also be available as PDF downloads soon.
These publications are all in German. If you are interested in one of them, please visit the respective German site or contact Astrid Walter.
