Birgit Vogel-Heuser

Technische Universität München | TUM · Department for Mechatronics

This paper focuses on the alignment of Graphical-User-Interface (GUI) applications and embedded devices. The main contribution is a benchmark approach that enables measuring and comparing the GUI rendering capability of embedded devices and provides a performance-oriented GUI design recommendation for an embedded device. The benchmark is tailored t...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most auspicious technologies in the mobile machine domain. It promises to optimize the machine operation to reduce energy consumption or provide an assistant function to support the operator in challenging machine movements. A large amount of machine data is required to train and build AI models. These dat...

Construction sites require improved information logistics in order to obtain an efficient overview of the construction machine and attachment tools available on the construction site as well as their maintenance states. To enable data transfer to the central back office, an information technology integration of the machine and its tools is necessar...

The increasing functionality of automation software in complex mechatronic systems such as construction machinery is a major challenge for companies to remain competitive. A major difficulty is that the software development in construction machinery often involves employees from different disciplines who have technological expertise about the proce...

Chip-probing is the key process for IC manufacturing to its ensure quality. As the number of tests increases, the test quality and the test yield will be affected because the needles on the probe card of the tester will be contaminated by external objects or worn out. Whether a needle polish of the probe card is required can be determined through r...

Gear condition monitoring can prevent unexpected downtimes or sudden failure of machinery. Since gear damage usually results from tooth contact, data for reliable fault detection should be acquired as close as possible to this engagement to reduce other components' disturbances (such as vibrations). One typical gear damage mechanism is pitting. Alt...

Zusammenfassung In der sich rasant entwickelnden Landschaft der industriellen Automatisierung läutet das Aufkommen von Industrie 5.0 (I5.0) einen Paradigmenwechsel hin zu einem stärker kollaborativen und menschzentrierten Ansatz ein. In diesem Beitrag wird die Rolle der Mensch-Maschine-Kollaboration und menschzentrierter Werkzeuge bei der Förderung...

The importance of high-performance computers in car networks increases to realize software assistance functions. These computers offer new opportunities for use cases in car testing and diagnostics towards vehicle software and services. Therefore, car testing and diagnostics are no longer limited to the testing and functional checking of electric a...

Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) engineering as well as gear damages are important topics for the usability of electromechanical powertrains in vehicles and for the future use of gears for any application. As part of the DFG-project sensor-integrating gear (german: Sensorintegrierendes Zahnrad (SIZA)) an FZG-gear test rig has been extended in o...

Vorwort Nur noch sieben Jahre bis 2030, dem Jahr, in dem wichtige Meilensteine der EU- und der deutschen Klimapolitik sowie vieler Industrieunternehmen auf dem Weg zu einer „net-zero“- Betriebsweise erreicht sein sollen! In dieser Zeit müssen die Konzepte entwickelt und zumindest großtechnisch erprobt werden, die uns dann im Zeitfenster 2045-2050 w...

Machine and plant automation in the timber (wood) industry and paper industry has many analogies due to the similar process characteristics, i.e., hybrid process and coupled drives. From a plan automation point of view, these industries are challenging because of their technical requirements. Requirements in fiber industry are even more challenging...

Cars with software-intensive features such as autonomous driving bring new opportunities to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their manufacturing processes. The complexity of internal engineering processes is increasing as software-intensive functions are connected to electric and electronic car architectures, which need to be tested and...

During the development of intralogistics systems (ILS), heterogeneous models are created, which represent discipline-specific views, e.g., control software developed by automation engineers or discrete-event simulation models created by simulation engineers. These models represent discipline-specific views on the system but contain overlapping info...

This article presents a model-based mutation framework for creating mutant systems implemented in IEC61131-3 languages. The framework is based on a meta-model of the IEC61131-3 standard. It supports 21 mutation operations, such as the addition or removal of POUs or the mutation of Structured Text and Sequential Functional Charts. Moreover, operatio...

Root-cause Analysis (RCA) of alarms is a well-established research area in automated Production Systems (aPS). Many RCA algorithms have been proposed and successfully evaluated and new ones are being developed. Recently, researchers focus on the incorporation of formalized information about the technical process in the analysis to gather further ev...

Vorwort Nur noch sieben Jahre bis 2030, dem Jahr, in dem wichtige Meilensteine der EU- und der deutschen Klimapolitik sowie vieler Industrieunternehmen auf dem Weg zu einer „net-zero“- Betriebsweise erreicht sein sollen! In dieser Zeit müssen die Konzepte entwickelt und zumindest großtechnisch erprobt werden, die uns dann im Zeitfenster 2045-2050 w...

Vorwort Nur noch sieben Jahre bis 2030, dem Jahr, in dem wichtige Meilensteine der EU- und der deutschen Klimapolitik sowie vieler Industrieunternehmen auf dem Weg zu einer „net-zero“- Betriebsweise erreicht sein sollen! In dieser Zeit müssen die Konzepte entwickelt und zumindest großtechnisch erprobt werden, die uns dann im Zeitfenster 2045-2050 w...

Vorwort Nur noch sieben Jahre bis 2030, dem Jahr, in dem wichtige Meilensteine der EU- und der deutschen Klimapolitik sowie vieler Industrieunternehmen auf dem Weg zu einer „net-zero“- Betriebsweise erreicht sein sollen! In dieser Zeit müssen die Konzepte entwickelt und zumindest großtechnisch erprobt werden, die uns dann im Zeitfenster 2045-2050 w...

For improving flexibility and robustness of the engineering of automated production systems (aPS) in case of extending, reducing or modifying parts, several approaches propose an encapsulation and clustering of related functions, e.g. from the electrical, mechanical or software engineering, based on a modular architecture. Considering the developme...

Maintenance engineers deal with increasingly complex automated production systems (aPSs). Such systems are characterized by an increasing computerization or the addition of robots that collaborate with human workers. The effects of changing or replacing components of such systems are difficult to assess since there are complex interdependencies bet...

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) optimize production and business processes at the same time. However, the engineering and specification of MES is a challenging, interdisciplinary process. Especially IT and production experts with different views and background have to cooperate. For successful and efficient MES software projects, misunderstan...

The rapid technological leaps of Industry 4.0 increase the pressure and demands on humans working in automation, which is one of the main motivators of Industry 5.0. In particular, automation software development for mechatronic systems becomes increasingly challenging, as both domain knowledge and programming skills are required for high-quality,...

Software implements a significant proportion of functionality in factory automation. Thus, efficient development and the reuse of software parts, so-called units, enhance competitiveness. Thereby, complex control software units are more difficult to understand, leading to increased development, testing and maintenance costs. However, measuring comp...

When changes are performed on an automated production system (aPS), new faults can be accidentally introduced in the system, which are called regressions. A common method for finding these faults is regression testing. In most cases, this regression testing process is performed under high time pressure and on-site in a very uncomfortable environmen...

The increasing demand for flexibility of automated production systems also affects the automated material flow systems (aMFS) they contain and demands reconfigurable systems. However, the centralized control concept usually applied in aMFS hinders an easy adaptation, as the entire control software has to be re-tested, when manually changing sub-par...

This paper comprises a SysML-based approach to support the model-driven engineering (MDE) of Manufacturing Automation Software Projects (MASP). The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is adapted to define the SysML-AT (SysML for automation), a specialized language profile that covers (non-)functional requirements, corresponding software applications...

automated Production Systems (aPS) are highly complex, mechatronic systems that usually have to operate reliably for many decades. Standardization and reuse of control software modules is a core prerequisite to achieve the required system quality in increasingly shorter development cycles. However, industrial case studies in the field of aPS show t...

Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are long-living and mechatronic systems, which include mechanics, electrics/electronics and software. The interdisciplinary nature combined with challenges and trends in the context of Industry 4.0 such as a high degree of customization, small lot sizes and evolution cause a high amount of variability. Maste...

Mixed reality and digital twins offer two prominent technological approaches that have the potential to revolutionize chemical industries. However, there are some hurdles that need to be overcome before these technologies can be widely adopted. One major challenge can be found in cooperation of interdisciplinary teams. In order to create an effecti...

An approach is introduced, which supports a testing technician in the identification of possibly untested behavior of control software of fully integrated automated production systems (aPS). Based on an approach for guided semi-automatic system testing, execution traces are recorded during testing, allowing a subsequent coverage assessment. As the...

Adaptive and flexible production systems require modular and reusable software especially considering their long term life cycle of up to 50 years. SWMAT4aPS, an approach to measure Software Maturity for automated Production Systems is introduced. The approach identifies weaknesses and strengths of various companie's solutions for modularity of sof...

Automated Production Systems (aPS) have lifetimes of up to 30-50 years, throughout which the desired products change ever more frequently. This requires flexible, reusable control software that can be easily maintained and evolved. To evaluate selected criteria that are especially relevant for maturity in software maintainability and evolvability o...

We give an overview of Generalized Test Tables (GTTs), a specification language derived from existing table-based test case description methods commonly used in the domain of automated production systems. We cover syntax and semantics of GTTs as well as their use for formal verification, and introduce an extension, Relational Test Tables (RTTs), wh...

The distributed blocking flowshop scheduling problem (DBFSP) with new job insertions is studied. Rescheduling all remaining jobs after a dynamic event like a new job insertion is unreasonable to an actual distributed blocking flowshop production process. A deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm is proposed to optimise the job selection model,...

The 8th International Summer School on Industrial Agents: Autonomous Control in Logistics, Production and Energy Applications will be organized by the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces, Institute for Automation Technology in Hamburg. The summer school will take place from 11th to 15th July 2022. It brings together l...

Due to the increase in Artificial Intelligence in the production systems domain, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) experts must collaborate with autonomous systems. Industrial AI raises several concerns about existing standards, which provide guidelines and design patterns. One way to realize I4.0 systems are Industrial Agents (IAs) due to their inherent autonom...

Due to customer-specific requirements that often change on short notice and vary tremendously, machine and plant manufacturers have to refactor their design processes and control software, especially for operator interfaces. Operator skills are crucial to operating complex systems, especially in case of a readjustment for new products or in case of...

In the era of Industry 4.0, advances in production engineering are driven by modern machines and equipment, whose evolution depends primarily on software nowadays. These machines are combined in automated Production Systems (aPS), whose software is characterized by high complexity, long lifetimes, and strong coupling of mechatronic disciplines. The...

Digitalization in the metal forming industry needs to be improved to achieve the goals set by Industrie 4.0. Distributed-Ledger-Technology (DLT) has been identified as a promising foundation for tackling the underlying problem of consistent information exchange. DLT-based solutions have already been developed, but none explicitly covers the roll fo...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) offer great potential for the digital transformation of industrial value creation in the context of Industry 4.0. They unify and integrate several technological approaches, including big data analysis and artificial intelligence, enhancing real-time monitoring and control of manufacturing processes. An extensive knowled...

Das Handhaben von Steuerungscode stellt einen erheblichen Kostenfaktor in Engineering-Projekten dar. Steuerungscodeprojekte sind häufig sehr komplexe und große Projekte, die teils aus hunderttausenden Verknüpfungen und Querverweisen bestehen. Der Entwurf von SPS-Software sollte daher zum Ziel haben, Aktivitäten wie Inbetriebnahme oder Wartung/ Erwe...

Functions of automated Production Systems (aPS) can be realized by control software (SW), whose high quality and short development time are, therefore, vital. To achieve both, SW should be modular and, thereby, reusable. Static code analysis can help improve the modularization of existing software, e. g., by automatically analyzing control and info...

Mass customization and small lot sizes have increased the demand for flexible software engineered Intralogistics Systems. To deal with these demands, not only is the effort of diverse engineering disciplines called for but also error-proneness must be reduced. Hence, a modular architecture, which enables changes in the plant design with minimized e...

automated Production Systems (aPS) are highly complex, mechatronic systems that usually have to operate reliably for many decades. Standardization and reuse of control software modules is a core prerequisite to achieve the required system quality in increasingly shorter development cycles. However, industrial case studies in aPS show that many aPS...

Controller design and their software implementations are usually done in isolated design spaces using respective COTS design tools. However, this separation of concerns can lead to long debugging and integration phases. This is because assumptions made about the implementation platform during the design phase—e.g., related to timing—might not hold...

Mathematical word problem solving is influenced by various characteristics of the task and the person solving it. Yet, previous research has rarely related these characteristics to holistically answer which word problem requires which set of individual cognitive skills. In the present study, we conducted a secondary data analysis on a dataset of N...

Interdisciplinary engineering of cyber physical production systems (CPPS) are often subject to delay, cost overrun and quality problems or may even fail due to the lack of efficient information exchange between multiple interdisciplinary teams working in complex networks within and across companies. We propose a direct integration of multiteam and...

Inhalt Vorwort . . . . . . .1 Fertigungsautomation – Digitaler Zwilling: Vom Konzept zur Anwendung Anwendungsfälle und Ansatz zur Erstellung des Digitalen Zwillings aus Sicht eines Komponentenherstellers . . . . . . 5 Interaktion zwischen Steuerungen auf der Basis von OPC UA FX und deren Konfiguration durch Verwaltungsschalen . . . . . . . . . . 19...

Inhalt Vorwort . . . . . . .1 Fertigungsautomation – Digitaler Zwilling: Vom Konzept zur Anwendung Anwendungsfälle und Ansatz zur Erstellung des Digitalen Zwillings aus Sicht eines Komponentenherstellers . . . . . . 5 Interaktion zwischen Steuerungen auf der Basis von OPC UA FX und deren Konfiguration durch Verwaltungsschalen . . . . . . . . . . 19...

In a turbulent environment with changing conditions and requirements and the advance of Industry 4.0, transformability is an important aspect for material flow systems along their entire product life cycle. It must be considered already in early development phases and plays a key role in the operation of a system up to eventual retrofits. Therefore...

Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are long-living and mechatronic systems, which include mechanics, electrics/electronics and software. The interdisciplinary nature combined with challenges and trends in the context of Industry 4.0 such as a high degree of customization, small lot sizes and evolution cause a high amount of variability. Maste...