Shortage of skilled workers and limited availability of IT resources, rapid change in environmental conditions for industry: Only those who can adapt their processes to a high degree and quickly or who have changeable production systems can survive in the face of current developments.One of the central keys to surviving in this new world is consistent digitization.What sounds simple in gray theory turns out to be difficult for many companies in practice.The reason: The long history of ERP systems - and in some cases also of MES solutions - has created highly functional, but at the same time monolithic system environments.