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…
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….
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…
In our blog series on „Time Traveling with Data Science“, we previously introduced different tasks in time series analysis. In this blog post, we now present the task of Outlier Detection. Outliers are data so different from others that one…
Future-proof decision making can be enabled by Continuous Planning and Continuous Budgeting with Continuous Integration of Digital Twins: Today we continue the series Continuous Engineering for Industrie 4.0, where we are exploring how continuous engineering practices should be instantiated to the automation domain to support Industrie 4.0 principles.
Rolling out changes in complex systems is always a challenge. Regardless of whether a software component needs to be modified or whether a change in the communication network needs to be made, any change may lead to unexpected behavior. Continuous…
Industry 4.0 and Digital Twins promise many benefits, such as an efficient lot size 1 or various optimizations. However, successfully implementing these concepts requires a sophisticated IT infrastructure. What are the requirements on this infrastructure and how can it be…
This is the final article in a series of five blog posts on requirements documentation. Where documenting requirements is considered a de facto standard in classical projects, Agile contexts tend to avoid it, as it is seen purely as unreasonable…
The documentation of requirements is an important means within requirements engineering. In projects with few requirements changes over their runtime, good documentation can be achieved with relative ease. For agile projects, however, it is in their nature that their requirements…
Documenting requirements is one of the key activities performed in requirements engineering. Even though projects using traditional development approaches naturally perform documentation, many practitioners in agile development projects avoid practicing the documentation of requirements because it is considered too much…
