Our vision for future assembly aims at increasing the changeability of manufacturing systems to make them more robust towards unpredictable changes. It is thus our mission to research, build and improve the future assembly for our customers‘ smart factories. In collaboration with our partners and domain experts, we develop innovative solutions, organizational concepts and implement algorithms for the assembly of from batch size 1 to mass production – both cross-domain and cross-industries. Considering our RWTH Aachen University network, we combine an entrepreneurial perception of production and scientific expertise in automation, mobile robotics, measurement technology, control engineering as well as artificial intelligence. Our holistic perspective on industrial assembly from individual processes to distributed productions sites is an inherent part of our approach. We consider both the role of automation as well as aspects of future work. As a Center at RWTH Aachen Campus we provide a joint research, communication and work platform for users, system integrators and manufacturers. Automation technology and customized demonstrator implementation is executed in our Living Lab.