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E2COMATION Self-Analytics Platform with TrendMiner

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As a response to our E2COMATION project’s masterclass workshop at hub.berlin last week, I wanted to share some shown features of TrendMiner to analyze IoT data for Smart Manufacturing. As a tool that is also designed for non-data scientists, it gives a lot of analytics capabilities to production experts and engineers and simplifies the use of production data on a practical level.

For more information about TrendMiner analytics platform, please visit: https://www.trendminer.com.
For more information about the E2COMATION project, please visit: https://e2comation.eu.

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.

TU Seminar Finished with E2COMATION Topics

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With the current winter term 2022/2023, I co-organized the seminar “Visual Trend Analysis” at the TU Darmstadt and offered some exciting topics about energy consumption and energy management in the industry. The topics were majorly motivated by the European research project E2COMATION, which has the optimization of energy usage as the goal, at multiple hierarchical layers of a manufacturing process as well as considering the whole life-cycle perspective across the value chain. After the seminar now has ended, I am impressed by the results, which document great overviews of the existing related works but also current scientific insights over the entire energy management domain in the producing industry, such as sensorization, but also analysis, and regulation with/without artificial intelligence methods.

I expect to consider the results of the seminar in the E2COMATION project, in better aligning our achievements to the list of applied approaches and maybe to also optimize our approaches by best practices from the other research works. Furthermore, the results could help to complete scientific publications in particular the related works.

It is planned to continue the collaboration with the Human-Computer Interaction & Visual Analytics team at the seminar next year and I thank Prof. Dr. Nazemi for the opportunity of contributing our industrial-driven research topics to the seminar.

 

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.

 

8th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2023)

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Also in this year, I support the organization of the 8th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2023) in Barcelona, Spain. The multidisciplinary Collaborative European Research Conference is an annual event that takes place since 2011 when it was initiated by University partners across Europe. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines in order to foster knowledge transfer, inter-disciplinary exchange, and collaboration.

In previous years, contributions came from computer science, biology, bioinformatics, business information systems, marketing, IT-security, civil engineering, education, psychology, multimedia, art, etc. Contributing students came from Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, USA, Japan, Norway, France, Turkey, etc.

Please note the Call for Papers (CfP).

Last ITEA Board Support Group Meeting in this Year

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For the last time this year, the ITEA Board Support Group (BSG) met in Berlin, together with the ITEA Authorities Committee. Even though it was an own journey to attend this time, it was anyway a very fruitful meeting where several points could be clarified, and upcoming actions could be tightened. It was impressive for me to see in what stages several projects are and what innovative projects are currently in the starting phase.

A major objective in the next year will be the visibility of the ITEA activities and especially the project outcomes. Many of the projects face important industrial, societal, and technological challenges and deliver solid impact to these. And this follows the mission of ITEA: The ITEA’s mission is to enable businesses, with the involvement of their customers, to create innovative solutions that master the Digital Transition and tackle the major challenges in a way that helps bring society forward. ITEA encourages its global community to create impact and value through RD&I projects in the area of software innovation with the knowledge of the industry and the capability of national financing.

I am looking back to an interesting start as a member of the ITEA BSG this year and I am excitingly looking forward to the upcoming year, and how ITEA continues its success story in software innovation.

Showing TrendMiner at E2COMATION Consortium Meeting

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Yesterday we could show at our E2COMATION meeting in Milano to the KEAS use-case the results of the very first live data integration into TrendMiner to enable analysis in perspective in energy saving and optimization. After being part of the Software AG research team for almost half a year, this is not only a personal milestone but also a solid project milestone since we can now overserve the entire production plant regarding energy consumption.
 
With TrendMiner, the self-analytics platform, employees at KEAS should be able to identify potentials to identify among others energy savings and process optimizations. So, the solution intends to empower process engineers, plant managers, and other non-data scientists to optimize operations all the time, anytime, using a new generation of model-free self-service industrial analytics, as a means to analyze operational performance without data modeling, as well as to recognize cause-effect-relationships and root causes, and create early warnings for.

Presentation at E2COMATION Consortium Meeting
Group Photo of the E2COMATION Consortium at the Y2 Meeting

Students Work on E2COMATION in TU Seminar

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We, the Human-Computer Interaction & Visual Analytics team, and I from the Software AG hold this semester the seminar “Visual Trend Analysis” at the TU Darmstadt in the department of computer science.

At this seminar, students will work on current research topics that also face the European research project E2COMATION, in which the Software AG is involved. The given topics address state-of-art research and trends toward energy management and energy consumption organization with ICT, especially in the production industry. After the last discussions regarding the goals of the seminar and the expected results, I am looking forward to learning new insights about existing research solutions that might be also interesting for the project as well.

The goal of the E2COMATION project is the improvement of industrial energy efficiency at the European manufacturing level which requires the integration of energy data with advanced optimization techniques to guide a company’s decision-making. 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. The solutions that will be developed in the E2COMATION framework will operate at all factory levels, from collecting information and data at the field level, to managing and optimizing production at the factory level, and even up to the factory network level.