A lot of people worked on the flexible transportation system of Production 2000+ (and even more on the project P2000+ itself)! Here is a list of people directly involved in developing the concepts of the agent-based control system KoWest (affiliations are from end of 1998 and people are listed in an arbitrary order):
Dr. Klaus Schild, DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology
Dr. Hartwig Baumgärtel, DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology
Dr. Sven Brückner, DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology
Harald Windisch, DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology
Stefan Bussmann, DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology
Dr. Christian Anders, DaimlerChrysler AG, Plant Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
Gerold Winz, DaimlerChrysler AG, Plant Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
Dr. Ronald Schoop, Schneider Electric
Ralf Neubert, Schneider Electric
Ernst Blank, Siemens Automation
Arthur Lederhofer, Siemens Automation
Dr. Ulrich Meyer, DAI lab, Technical University of Berlin
And here a few people which have done a lot to initiate or support the work on KoWest (again affiliations are from end of 1998 and people are listed in an arbitrary order):
Dr. Christoph Siegel, DaimlerChrysler AG, Plant Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
(project leader for P2000+)
Prof. Dr. Sahin Albayrak, DAI lab, Technical University of Berlin