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Production Tour at Protektor

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Yesterday we had the impressive opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of the production at Protektor, at its headquarters in Gaggenau (Germany), as part of the German research project CliCE-DiPP. As a leading manufacturer of building profiles in Europe, they are also confronted with the issues of energy efficiency and sustainable production life cycle.  Both aspects are addressed in the CliCE-DiPP project, with a focus on a practical solution that the manufacturing industry can use to, among other things, create Product Carbon Footprints within a so-called Asset Administration Shell.

Besides a clearer understanding of how the production works at Protektor, we, later on, discussed a variety of aspects of what is necessary to create a Product Carbon Footprint but also what has to be advanced and be done to really go ahead toward a sustainable product life cycle.

Many thanks again to the Protektor team, especially Dr. Christof Maisch, Dr. Jörg Böllhoff, Luisa Schäfer, and Kevin Weisgerber, who allowed us to take a look at the production and gave us so many insights into their strategies, ideas, and current progress toward more sustainability.

Students Work on E2COMATION and CliCE-DiPP Topics in TU Seminar

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Also in the current semester, I got the opportunity together with the Human-Computer Interaction & Visual Analytics team to hold the seminar “Visual Trend Analysis” at the TU Darmstadt in the Department of Computer Science. The kick-off of the seminar was yesterday and will take the entire semester with a final presentation at the end.

This time I offered topics coming from the European research project E2COMATION and the national research project CliCE-DiPP regarding energy and emission reduction, where we as Software AG are involved. The goal is to elaborate and find answers, especially to state-of-the-art questions, and what approaches and best practices could be assumed.

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. CliCE-DiPP aims to develop a digital CO2 product pass based on the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), a standardized framework for the exchange and provision of information. It contains all relevant sustainability and energy data across companies over the entire life cycle of a product and allocates them accordingly.

3rd Year E2COMATION Project Meeting in Milan

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Last week we had our 3rd year E2COMATION project meeting in Milano. The focus laid on finalizing the implementation in the four use cases. Meanwhile, the SAG’s self-analytics solution Trendminer is used in the three use-cases KEAS, MAHOU, and ROYO to have a sensorial overview of what’s happened at the production, but also to identify possible opportunities to optimize the production and to identify anomalies, which might be solved, corrected or at least send warnings automatically with the SAG’s real-time analytics solution APAMA.

As a significant milestone, Trendminer is already fully connected and configured to consume the KEAS plant data, where we already have started discussing and preparing analysis views for certain behaviors that require some optimization and cause analysis. It is impressive to see how a graphical tool like Trendminer with simplified user-friendly analytical functions could help to understand certain behaviors at the plant and in the IoT date and find potential optimization strategies together with the domain experts of the company.

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).