Zusammenfassung Smart Factories sind Produktionsstandorte, welche in der Lage sind, sich weitestgehend ohne menschliches Zutun zu organisieren. Dies soll durch verstärkte Kommunikation der Maschinen untereinander ermöglicht werden. Dabei spielt das Internet of Things (IoT), also die Vernetzung von Geräten, eine große Rolle um eine zentrale Datenauswertung durchzuführen. Da mitunter sensible Dat...

In Unternehmen mit komplexen Produkten und Dienstleistungen wachsen Anforderungen, welche an Kommunikation, Koordination und Zusammenarbeit zwischen Informationsund Wissensarbeitern gestellt werden, stetig. Dieser Workshop will vor dem Hintergrund des durch die Initiatoren im Factory of the Future Programm gestarteten EU-Projects FACTS4WORKERS eine nachhaltige Plattform schaffen, um aktuelle un...

Visual analytics plays a key role in the era of connected industry (or industry 4.0, industrial internet) as modern machines and production (assembly) lines can generate large amount of data, and effective visual exploration techniques are needed for troubleshooting, process optimization and decision making. However, developing effective visual analytics solutions for this application domain is...

In modern factories, different machines and devices offering their services, such as producing parts or simply providing information, become more and more important. The number and diversity of such devices is increasing and the task of combining available resources into workflows becomes a challenge which can hardly be handled by a human user. In this paper we describe how we use RESTdesc, a f...

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is cited as the latest means for making manufacturing more flexible, cost effective, and responsive to changes in customer demands. However, a major concern surrounding the IIoT is interoperability between devices and machines that function within different protocols and architectures. This paper presents the Smart Factory Web (SFW), which is based on th...

The Smart Grid aims at making the current energy grid more efficient and eco-friendly. The Smart Grid features an IT-layer, which allows communication between a multitude of stakeholders and will have to be integrated with other “smart” systems (e.g., smart factories or smart cities) to operate effectively. Thus, many participants will be involved and will exchange large volumes of data, leadin...

While digitization as well as new technologies and paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT) help solving issues within smart factories, they simultaneously trigger new challenges. The creation of smart factories, whose components communicate in an intelligent manner, is located at the frontier of the virtual and the real world. To connect both worlds, spatio-temporal information can be us...