Description
Students of various study courses (especially Master of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of IBS, Master of Industrial Informatics, Business Administration) should set up and operate an Industry 4.0 learning environment (platform) (see figure). The structure includes the commissioning of the individual production and IT devices as well as the development and configuration of Industry 4.0-compatible interfaces to be able to combine the individual systems flexibly for larger production scenarios, as well as the implementation of different product scenarios as building blocks in a supply chain. For example, this also includes the design of products with a lot size of one and new market offers resulting from the various technical possibilities.
The project has been planned with an implementation time of approximately 2 years and should have an application time of approximately 10 years.
Current Participants
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armando Colombo
Jeffrey Wermann, M.Eng.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Agnes Pechmann (responsible person)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schüning
Heike Voß, M.Eng.
Maximilian Zarte, M.Eng.
Jonas Schwarz, M.Eng.
Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Setz
Gayathiri Sivanesan, B.Eng.
Philipp Heeren, M.Eng.
The digital age brings with it a constantly increasing networking of the world. The digitalization affects all branches and training areas and thus all study courses at our university. Special attention is paid to the topic of digitalization in industry. The fourth industrial revolution should ensure the competitiveness of German industries by being able to react to increased demands in terms of production time, price, and individualization of the products with the help of appropriate technologies. Technologically, the aim is to develop novel IT system architectures in which the individual industrial components are regarded as so-called cyber-physical systems and traditional communication hierarchies are broke down.
Results
The ERP-System is a core component of the IT system, in which production orders are entered and managed. It also serves all other systems as a source of information about open orders and current production steps to be processed. This information can be retrieved via REST web services without any knowledge of the underlying ERP system or a database. In the present implementation, the REST interface is based on the database of the ERP system called "Transfact". A software adapter is developed to implement all relevant web services for the query and feedback of product and order data and to translates these into corresponding SQL queries to the database.
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