Technologies of Digital Transformation

Digitization is about optimizing the interaction between people, machines and products by creating a Cyber Physical System (CPS). In the CPS, the physical objects, each of which also has a digital representation there, should be able to interact with each other in a location-independent, interoperable and flexible manner.  Digitization is intended, among other things, to produce products more cheaply, faster and more sustainably, to fulfill customer requirements better and more individually, and to support people in critical decision-making processes or manual activities. Due to the increasing complexity of production systems and the ever shorter life cycles of products, progress in digitization is no longer prestige, but a "must have" to remain marketable.

The greatest challenges in creating customer value and a unique selling proposition are often not a lack of technologies or processes, but the very individual requirements of the use cases and the "mix" of technological solution, accompanying business model, and called price that is so necessary. This is exactly where the core of the applied research of this working group lies, i.e. the creation of competitive digital solutions with and for industry.

In particular, our focus is on the following areas:

- Digital industrial services (such as control "as a service") by using appropriate IoT technologies.

- Quality of Service communication for heterogeneous industrial systems with the consideration of aspects such as latency, reliability, security, energy, etc.

- Management of complex IoT systems.

- Use of digital twins (management shells) and creation of new business models.

- Potential analysis of new IoT technologies and their applicability in industry.