Roman Dumitrescu

Universität Paderborn | UPB · Heinz Nixdorf Institute

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt ein beteiligungsorientiertes Vorgehen einer Einführung und Gestaltung von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) im industriellen Umfeld. Als Beispiel wird hierzu das Leuchtturmprojekt „InTime“ des Kompetenzzentrums Arbeitswelt.Plus genutzt, welches sich mit einer KI-basierten Unterstützung der Personaleinsatzplanung im Montageberei...

The introduction of Systems Engineering is an approach for dealing with the increasing complexity of products and their associated product development. Several introduction strategies are available in the literature; nevertheless, the introduction of Systems Engineering into practice still poses a great challenge to companies. Many companies have a...

In diesem Beitrag wird die soziotechnische Gestaltung einer Intelligenten Personaleinsatzplanung beim Unternehmen Miele & Cie. KG im Rahmen des Leuchtturmprojekts „InTime“ im Kompetenzzentrum Arbeitswelt.Plus beschrieben. Hierzu werden die Durchführung und Auswertung einer Interviewreihe sowie das daraus erarbeitete Soll-Konzept vorgestellt.

Im folgenden Kapitel wird gezeigt, wie das Risikomanagement die Einführung von digitalen Technologien vor soziotechnischem Hintergrund unterstützen kann. Dazu werden zunächst Potenziale der Digitalen Transformation für Unternehmen und deren Geschäftsmodelle, Marktleistungen und Leistungserstellungsprozesse aufgezeigt. Anschließend werden soziotechn...

Plattformen haben im Business-to-Consumer (B2C)-Bereich gravierende Veränderungen ausgelöst und z. B. im Hotel- und Taxigewerbe etablierte Strukturen erodiert. Es wird erwartet, dass diese Plattformisierung weiter voranschreitet und in Zukunft auch im Business-to-Business (B2B)-Bereich ähnlich substantielle Veränderungen herbeiführt. Der Aufstieg d...

Due to the increasing importance of sustainability companies are confronted with a variety of challenges to transform their existing business. The concept of circular economy has emerged as a promising economic model for this endeavor. However, the implementation of a circular economy business requires changes in the current product design. The so-...

Digital platforms have already led to disruptions in multiple B2C markets and are becoming increasingly dominant in B2B markets. As a result, more and more companies are trying to participate in the platform economy. However, the successful development and operation of a digital platform is associated with significant challenges, which leads to 85%...

Mounting sensors in disk stack separators is often a major challenge due to the operating conditions. However, a process cannot be optimally monitored without sensors. Virtual sensors can be a solution to calculate the sought parameters from measurable values. We measured the vibrations of disk stack separators and applied machine learning (ML) to...

Comprehensive data understanding is a key success driver for data analytics projects. Knowing the characteristics of the data helps a lot in selecting the appropriate data analysis techniques. Especially in data-driven product planning, knowledge about the data is a necessary prerequisite because data of the use phase is very heterogeneous. However...

Industry 4.0 is one of the most influential trends in manufacturing as of now. Coined as the fourth industrial revolution it promises to overthrow entrenched structures opening new pathways for innovation and value creation. Like all revolutions, it is accompanied by disruption and uncertainty. Consequently, many manufacturing companies struggle to...

The specification of requirements and tests are crucial activities in automotive development projects. However, due to the increasing complexity of automotive systems, practitioners fail to specify requirements and tests for distributed and evolving systems with complex interactions when following traditional development processes. To address this...

The megatrend digitalization turns mechatronic products into continuous collectors and generators of use phase data. By analyzing this data, manufacturers can uncover valuable insights about the products and the users. Especially in product planning, these insights could be used to plan promising future product generations. The systematic exploitat...

In the course of digitalization, digital platforms are unleashing their full disruptive potential and are already dominating the first industries (e.g., hotel industry). As a result of this success, more and more companies want to build their own platforms and participate in the success. However, building and operating a digital platform involves m...

Im Rahmen dieser Studie wird der Status Quo des KI-Einsatzes in der industriellen Arbeitswelt in der Region OstWestfalenLippe erfasst und beschrieben. Dadurch wird eine Grundlage geschaffen, um eine zielführende Unterstützung der Gestaltung von durch Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) gestützter Arbeitsprozesse in Unternehmen zu ermöglichen, indem beispie...

Product planning is transforming. For decades, product managers searched for potentials for improvement of their products using methods such as interviews and workshops with customers. Since the information gained with these methods was predominantly qualitative and often also incomplete, product managers also had to rely on their own experience as...

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based applications promise great potential benefits for companies. However, an isolated consideration of the technical system is not sufficient for the design. Rather, it is necessary to design the entire work system taking into account the socio-technical system approach. This enables the combination of the strengths o...

The digital transformation describes a far-reaching change process that does not stop at any industry. Companies and entire industries must realign themselves in order to respond to these fundamental changes of business models and processes. Therefore, digital transformation should be on the strategic agenda of every company, independently from its...

Agile product development methods help to reduce the product development time. The resulting shorter time-to-market ensures a company’s competitiveness. For a time-reduced development process and product lifecycle, the response time to end customer requirements must be decreased as product complexity increases. This requires special methods and too...

Abstract In order to remain globally successful, it will soon no longer be sufficient to fulfill criteria such as good product design. Instead, customer benefits must be continuously increased. Tech companies are already achieving success and embodying this change today. A new mission statement is needed. EngOps is designed to meet this need and st...

Künstliche Intelligenz bietet großes Potenzial im Engineering. Der Einsatz gestattet insbesondere für Wissensarbeiter eine effiziente Arbeitsteilung, in der beispielsweise fehleranfällige und repetitive Aktivitäten unterstützt werden. Eine erfolgreiche Einführung bedarf einer vorangehenden Analyse von nutzenstiftenden Einsatzpotenzialen, bei der al...

The increasing integration of products into System of Systems (SoS) foster both the development complexity and the complexity of the systems. Patterns offer a promising approach to support the understanding and to achieve a higher efficiency in engineering. To get an overview of the definition and applications of SoS and patterns this contribution...

In an Industry 4.0 compliant production plant components from different value chain partners must work together. Digital Twins (DTs) are an essential part of that system of systems because all relevant assets will need those digital representations to be integrated into such kind of environment, as they establish the required flexibility for former...

It is often a problem to combine domain knowledge and data science knowledge in applications of industrial data analytics. Data scientists usually spend a lot of time to understand the domain to develop an application while domain experts lack the skills to interpret results of underlying mathematical models. This leads to difficulties when adaptin...

Smart Services eröffnen vielfältige Geschäftsmöglichkeiten für produzierende Unternehmen und erfordern zugleich einschneidende Anpassungen ihrer häufig historisch gewachsenen Wertschöpfung. Dieser Beitrag zeigt eine Web-Applikation, die es produzierenden Unternehmen erlaubt, die erforderliche Smart-Service-Transformation zu planen. Dafür werden umf...

The ongoing digitalization of products offers product managers new potentials to plan future product generations based on data from the use phase instead of assumptions. However, product managers often face difficulties in identifying promising opportunities for analyzing use phase data. In this paper, we propose a method for planning the analysis...

The development of technical systems requires close cooperation of stakeholders from different disciplines. This collaboration takes place in workshops. Driven by digitalization and by the current pandemic such workshops take place primarily online. Suitable collaboration tools and methods are crucial to success. At the beginning of such workshops,...

This paper presents a concept to identify Systems Engineering (SE) competencies for different stakeholder groups within the company. An overview of the current state of research and the challenges of implementing Systems Engineering in industry is given. The qualification of employees towards the topic of SE has a very decisive role for the company...

Cyber-physical systems, like autonomous vehicles, are intelligent and networked. The development of such systems requires cooperation between different stakeholders. A lack of system understanding can lead to unidentified (safety relevant) security requirements (SRSR) in early engineering. This can increase product development costs or compromise s...

Advancing digitization is creating fascinating potential benefits, especially in the automotive domain, through technologies such as Car2x and autonomous driving. However, new information and communication technologies result in a continuous increase in product complexity and in challenges for the development of current and future mobility systems....

Kurzfassung: Die zunehmende Durchdringung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in produzierenden Unternehmen wird die Arbeitswelt verändern. Als wünschenswert wird dabei eine KI-basierte Arbeitswelt betrachtet, in der KI nicht primär menschliche Tätigkeiten ersetzt, sondern menschliche Tätigkeiten entlastet, unterstützt und bereichert. Für Unternehmen...

Industry 4.0 promises many potentials in production. Examples are a data-driven optimization of production processes of individual machines, driverless transport systems, and assistance systems. Nevertheless, companies are still hesitant to invest in Industry 4.0 applications. Studies show that one of the main reasons for that is the unclear econom...

The successful planning of future product generations requires reliable insights into the actual products’ problems and potentials for improvement. A valuable source for these insights is the product use phase. In practice, product planners are often forced to work with assumptions and speculations as insights from the use phase are insufficiently...

The manufacturing industry is currently experiencing profound changes driven by digitalization and servitization. Consequently, so-called smart services, which are digital services that generate value from product data, are gaining considerable attention. However, many companies are struggling with their strategic management, particularly in terms...

Cyber-physical systems generate and collect huge amounts of usage data during operation. Analyzing these data may enable manufacturing companies to identify weaknesses and learn about the users of their products. Such insights are valuable in the early phases of product development like product planning, as they facilitate decision-making for produ...

Within the course of a research project, a digital collaboration platform has been developed to exploit the potentials of Additive Manufacturing (AM). Potential users of AM and technology experts are digitally guided through the whole development process of individual AM components on the platform. This paper presents an Augmented Reality-based sol...

Zusammenfassung Im Zuge der voranschreitenden Digitalisierung ist das Umfeld von Industrieunternehmen zunehmend durch Volatilität, Unsicherheit, Komplexität und Ambiguität geprägt. Immens ansteigende Datenmengen, die sinkende Halbwertszeit von Informationen und immer kürzere Entwicklungszeiten setzen Unternehmen unter enormen Zeitdruck. Folglich ko...

Daten verändern Produkte sowie die dazugehörige Planung, Entwicklung und Produktion. Zunächst wird ein Überblick des Status quos der Datennutzung in diesen Bereichen aufgezeigt. Ferner werden Potenziale und Herausforderungen vor dem Hintergrund der datengestützten Produktplanung beleuchtet und Implikationen für die Produktionssystementwicklung abge...

For several years now, the two megatrends of servitization and digitalization have had a major impact on business in manufacturing. Servitization means the addition of complementary services to products aiming for increased revenues, margins, and differentiation from competitors. Digitalization refers to the rapidly evolving information and communi...

ISO/SAE 21434 "Road vehicles - Cybersecurity engineering" is a standard for cyber security, which has been published since August 2021. The standard covers the concept phase. The concept phase is characterized by the cooperation of various mostly high-level stakeholders from different disciplines, departments and possibly companies. The cooperation...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) generate huge amounts of data during the usage phase. By analysing these data, CPS providers can systematically uncover hidden product improvement potentials for future product generations. The successful implementation of such analytics use cases depends to a large extent on whether the stakeholders involved succeed in...

Die Entwicklung von Produkten wird zunehmend komplexer. Dies liegt zum Teil an sprunghaften Entwicklungen von Technologien, aber auch an der zunehmenden Volatilität des Umfelds. Um trotz der zunehmenden Komplexität in der Wettbewerbsarena von morgen zu bestehen, müssen Unternehmen ihr Produktportfolio zukunftsrobust weiterentwickeln. Diese neuen An...

Die Gestaltung der technischen Systeme von morgen wird durch technologische Megatrends wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) geprägt. Hinzu kommt der wachsende Drang zu einer neuen, nachhaltigeren Gestaltung der technischen Lösungen. Dieser Wandel der Wertschöpfung kann insbesondere durch ein neuartiges Engineering forciert werden, we...

The German automotive and supplier industry is one of the most innovative sectors worldwide. A special focus of research and development investments is on the topics of electromobility and automated driving. Every third patent registered in the context of electromobility comes from Germany. Being responsible for 75% of innovations, the innovation s...

While the term digitisation mainly refers to implications of digital technologies, digitalisation covers also the changes in society. It opens up fascinating possibilities and will change the world of tomorrow. It is important to tap the associated potentials for innovation in order to maintain competitiveness and secure future success. However, st...

Product Creation (PC) refers to the process of planning and developing a product as well as related services from the initial idea until manufacturing and distribution. Throughout this process, there are numerous tasks that depend on human expertise and are typically undertaken by experienced practitioners. As the field of Artificial Intelligence (...

Low emission requirements exert increasing influence upon ship design. The large variety of technological options makes selecting systems during the conceptual design phase a difficult endeavor. To compare different solutions, we need to be able to exchange individual systems and directly evaluate their impact on the design’s economic and environme...

Currently, practitioners follow a top-down approach in automotive development projects. However, recent studies have shown that this top-down approach is not suitable for the implementation and testing of modern automotive systems. Specifically, practitioners increasingly fail to specify requirements and tests for systems with complex component int...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) generate huge amounts of data during the usage phase. By analyzing these data, CPS providers can systematically uncover hidden product improvement potentials for future product generations. But many companies face difficulties starting industrial data analytics projects as they cannot rely on experience and miss orienta...

Digitization has been driving technological design in mechanical engineering and related industries such as the automotive, electronics and medical technology sectors. A change from classic, mechanics centered systems to mechatronic systems and further to intelligent, cyber-physical systems is becoming apparent. To counter the resulting increase in...

Smart Cities are developing in parallel with the global trend towards urbanization. The ultimate goal of Smart City projects is to deliver a positive impact for the citizens and the socio-economic and ecological environment. This involves the challenge to derive concrete requirements for (technical) projects from overarching concepts like Quality o...

Cyber-physical systems, like autonomous vehicles, are intelligent and networked. The development of such systems requires cooperation between different stakeholders. A lack of system understanding can lead to unidentified (safety relevant) security requirements (SRSR) in early engineering. This can increase product development costs or compromise s...

Sustainability is one of humanity’s greatest challenges, while digitalization is considered to be today’s preeminent driver of change. Digitalization offers fascinating opportunities for industry, but it also changes the products and services of tomorrow as well as the way they are developed. The interplay of disciplines such as electronics, comput...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are able the collect huge amounts of data about themselves, their users, and their environment during their usage phase. By feeding these usage data back into product planning, manufacturers can optimize their engineering and decision-making processes. Despite promising potentials, most manufacturers still do not analyz...

As digitization progresses, the integration of information and communication technologies in technical systems is constantly increasing. Fascinating value potentials are emerging (e.g. autonomous driving), but also challenges in the system development. The constantly increasing product complexity and degree of networking require a systemic developm...

Machinery and plant engineering in Germany is characterized by small and medium-sized enterprises. The so-called backbone of German industry is in transition towards Industry 4.0, with systems becoming more complex and the development task becoming an interdisciplinary task. Systems Engineering is a proven approach to realize these systems. Project...

Digitalization and sustainability are major challenges for today's manufacturing industry. While digitalization is characterized by the incorporation of digital technologies in the products and services as well as the value creation architectures, sustainability requires them to balance economic, environmental and social issues. In both areas, espe...