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E2COMATION in masterclass @ hub.berlin

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Yesterday we had a nice talk and discussion in our masterclass session at the hub.berlin toward “Advanced Energy Management and Optimization for Smart Industry 5.0 Manufacturing” organized by the E2COMATION project team. The Software AG part was explaining the event-sensitive communication to enable a simplified communication between the various project technologies and the plant. And furthermore, to explain the use of our real-time streaming data analytics platform APAMA and our self-analytics platform TrendMiner to observe and respectively analyze the plant data in the project.

It was quite interesting to get in touch with the audience and remarkable to gain insights into the experiences of other experts in the field of IoT in general and how they collect, process, and analyze IoT data in particular.

E2COMATION Research Team at the hub.berlin 2023 Fair

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The research team of SoftwareAG will also attend the interactive session at the hub.berlin on June 28-29. As the responsible partner in the E2COMATION research project for real-time analytics and prediction of stream data and the data stream self-analytics, we will explain how event data (such as sensor values or production plant status) could be processed and analyzed to identify incidents and optimization capabilities. In particular, the self-analytics platform, realized with #Trendminer, enables various data analyses without being a professional analyst or data science expert. Let’s have a look at our current results and let’s get into a discussion about advancements that might be necessary to support manufacturers in advancing their production!

We are also present and open for exciting talks at the project booth on both days!

Kick-off of the German Research Project CliCE-DiPP

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It was a really good and successful kick-off, not only to finally get to know the partners personally but also to already plan the first arrangements for the next steps! With the determination of the CO2 footprint for products, the CliCE-DiPP project targets the core of a CO2-sensitive industry. Of course, this will also be a major challenge in the conceptualization and prototypical implementation. After all, the solution should not only be effective but also practical for companies to handle.

EuProGigant Project Workshop in Vienna

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On 09/10 March the team of the European Research Project EuProGigant held a workshop in Vienna. At the official first part of the workshop, the new partners of the enlarged team were welcomed, and the funding bodies were briefed about the current project stage and the future objectives, especially those together with the new partners. The added partners bring some highly appreciated expertise into the project which will help to set up and demonstrate the data ecosystem that will have huge potential and benefit for SMEs in the future. As could be imagined, building an open European data infrastructure that advances a resilient, data-driven, and sustainable industry in Europe, requires knowledge from various technical fields.

The unofficial second part of the workshop aimed at planning the next concrete steps in the project and strengthening the common picture of the proposed infrastructure that is based on the GAIA-X outcomes. During the breaks, there was also the ability to visit the pilot factory 4.0, where the Vienna partners of the Technical University research on various new production procedures and approaches.

At the Hanover Fair (https://www.hannovermesse.de/en) on 17-21 April 2023, you could meet the project and get a view of the current results.

 

Became Project Member in EuProGigant

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Almost two months ago I joined the German-Austrian research project EuProGigant to support and temporarily represent the work from the Software AG side. In many ways, the project was topically something new and different from what I did before since the focus lies majorly on backend work with a high emphasis on security and interoperability. Furthermore, in the previous research action GAIA-X, the foundations have been defined and specified and should be applied as concrete implementation in the frame of the EuProGigant project.

The project EuProGigant stands for “European Production Giganet” and aims at calamity-avoiding, self-orchestration of the value chain, and learning ecosystems. The binational research project for smart and sovereign use of data in the European manufacturing industry. The project is carried out by an Austrian-German project consortium led by TU Wien and TU Darmstadt, with the goal of building a multi-location, digitally networked production ecosystem. As a lighthouse project for the GAIA-X initiative, which strives to build an open European data infrastructure, EuProGigant advances a resilient, data-driven, and sustainable industry in Europe. The ecosystem, which consists of data and infrastructure ecosystems, should show how to practically realize added value for customers and manufacturing companies through value creation based on smart and sovereign use of data. This should strengthen European industry and drives the contribution of industry to the sustainable development of Europe.

GAIA-X is a European initiative to build a common, secure, and sovereign data infrastructure for Europe based on the principles of trust and transparency. It was launched in early 2020, driven by policy and the economy. The aim of GAIA-X is to develop the new data infrastructure on the basis of the European legal framework, reducing dependence on large cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and others. GAIA-X is the first opportunity to apply European standards for the secure and sovereign use of data in manufacturing. GAIA-X is paving the way for resilient value creation and learning ecosystems because it provides tools on how to design a virtual marketplace that is independent, overarching, and secure.

E2COMATION Project Meeting in Milan

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Several days have passed since the last consortium meeting of the European research project E2COMATION at the beginning of this March in Milan and it has taken me some time to recap the progress of the project. Throughout the entire project, a huge push happened since the last and first physical consortia meeting end of November last year after the Covid-19 pandemic. This push led to amazing integration progress in any use case. While we already achieved solid visible results in the use case KEAS that we already presented in November last year, we have started replicating the infrastructure at ROYO and MAHOU and making also there significant progress as well.

This project’s progress could also be seen in the beginning shift from integration to refining and using the infrastructure and talking about how to use it for analyzing energy consumption and how to identify optimization strategies. It is always nice to see when research finally faces a problem that was intended to be solved. I am looking forward to the hub.berlin on 28-29 June 2023 where we aim to show some of the outcomes to a broader audience.

Became Project Member in InnoSale

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Since a few months, I became involved in the ITEA project InnoSale to support my colleague. A specific focus lies on building a common understanding of the platform and what a universal process could be understood in the various covered scenarios when dealing with the aimed-to-build platform.

At this point of the project, it is challenging since it requires quickly becoming aware of the project, its structure, teams, and purposes, while it is essential to offer of undiversified process soon to enable effective merge of the different project technologies. However, there is no reason to dither because the project consortium consists of a number of highly qualified partners with great motivation to overcome the existing challenges.

In general, the project InnoSale aims to innovate today’s sales systems and processes for complex and variable industrial equipment, plants, and services. The characteristics of these products make this task fundamentally different from the sales of products that can be selected easily in a shop system (e.g., at Amazon, Zalando, eBay).

SAG Project-Lead in E2COMATION

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Since my movement as researcher to Software AG, I immediately got involved in the European research project E2COMATION. E2COMATION intends to address the optimization of energy usage, at multiple hierarchical layers of a manufacturing process as well as considering the whole life-cycle perspective across the value chain. For this purpose, in the project, a cross-sectorial methodological framework and a modular technological platform will be provided that is meant to help industrial companies to save energy and directly be more sustainable from the environmental and economic points of view.

Today it was officially announced to the project partners that I become project lead for the Software AG tasks. With this measure, a higher responsibility comes along with finding self-contained solutions and ideas to upcoming challenges in the project.

I am looking forward to bringing in my expertise to find solutions to the given project objectives, even if I still have a lot to learn about the smart technologies offered by Software AG.

Kickoff of the e-Learning Project Digitallabor

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With the kickoff of the e-Learning project Digitallabor, we are supporting the education and training strategy of digital teaching in vocational training. Especially the COVID-19 crisis increased the need for solutions and approaches to enable digital trainings. However, there are many challenges, starting with the required infrastructure, moving further to pedagogic strategies and ending in individual electronic learning features.

In the project, any step has to be cover. Together with the project partners in the field of digital education, it is intended to use the opportunities offered by digitization for vocational education and training and to open up access possibilities for multipliers and teachers.