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Unlocking Agile Manufacturing: Embracing Service-based Production with Eclipse BaSyx (Part 1)

Service-based production promises a plethora of benefits, such as higher revenues, by providing custom-tailored products or a significant reduction of the time between the placement of a customer order and its fulfillment. However, how can service-based production be realized? Delve…

The engineering of smartness in software-based systems

In the first part of this blog series, we discussed the pursuit of smartness in software-based systems and showed how context awareness often enables what is perceived by end users as “smart behavior”. In today’s post, we address the question…

DIN SPEC 92005 – Standardizing uncertainty in machine learning?

DIN SPEC 92005 has been publicly available since January 2024. It deals with the quantification of uncertainties in Machine Learning (ML) and was developed in collaboration with Fraunhofer IESE, which also provided the deputy chairman. Dieser Artikel ist auch in…

Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling for Service-based Production with Deep Reinforcement Learning (Part 1)

Current industrial production scheduling approaches assume that process planning is performed before scheduling and that process plans are fully or at least partially available before scheduling starts. However, this is not the case in service-based production [5]. Service-based production provides…

Smart Systems

The Pursuit of Smartness in Software-based Systems

In this Fraunhofer IESE blog post series, we will explore the pursuit of smartness in software-based systems. In this initial post, we will discuss the concept of „smart“ within this context, pinpoint what lies at the heart of smart-based systems,…

Leveraging the power of Augmented Reality (AR) and storytelling to convey ideas – a use case

Are you searching for an engaging approach to convey your ideas to the public? Are you scouting for an appealing medium that would stand out from traditional content delivery methods, such as making a video or publishing an article? Are…

Utilizing the Asset Administration Shell to Make the Process Industry Changeable

The process industry is characterized by closed systems that cannot be inferred easily from the outside, enormous process durations, and long ramp-up and ramp-down times. As a result, changes to process plants are even more costly than in discrete manufacturing….

Measuring the Performance Efficiency of Eclipse BaSyx

Industrie 4.0 (I4.0) is about end-to-end digitalization between IT (information technology) and OT (operation technology), i.e., the shopfloor. For example, the production of small lot sizes requires the ability to efficiently change production. Modern approaches, such as service-oriented manufacturing and…

Sustainable Software Design

Sustainable Software Design: Background and Best Practices

Despite ever-increasing energy consumption in the IT sector, the software industry still lacks objective quality standards for sustainable software design and development. At Fraunhofer IESE, one area of our activities is research and development of sustainable solutions. In this article,…