Research Articles
All research articles on this portal are listed at the National ISSN-Center for Germany under ISSN 2749-9898
Market Overview Smart Automation: Update 2026
This is the third update to the Smart Automation Market Overview. One of the vendors has discontinued sales of its platform. Two revised comparison tables provide greater transparency regarding the differences. And one table that was not sufficiently informative has...
Internet of Production (IoP)
Due to an increasingly dynamic environment, companies are facing numerous challenges, such as the micro-segmentation of markets and ever shorter product life cycles. One way to address these challenges is to sustainably increase their innovative strength.
The »Smart Factory 4.0« Demonstration Cell
The way to Industrie 4.0 involves the trial, testing and skilful combination of novel methods, concepts and technologies. To this end Fraunhofer IPK has developed the »Smart Factory 4.0« demonstration cell which uses batch size 1 production to make the modes …
Enabling System Lifecycle Management through neutral data interfaces
The complexity of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations has already reached an unpleasantly high level, and the rise of complexity of products and their development will probably accelerate further. By establishing System Lifecycle Management (SysLM) as the next level PLM …
End-to-End Strategy: Systems Lifecycle Management (SysLM®)
Ulrich SendlerIndependent technology analyst and authorFlantinstr. 12D-80689 Münchenwww.ulrichsendler.de Summary In the last third of the 20th Century application software developed into a decisive driver for new kinds of product development and production and thus...
Interdisciplinary Product Development – Model Based Systems Engineering
Martin EignerTorsten GilzRadoslav Zafirov 1. Introduction Innovative interdisciplinary product development requires a rethinking of current methods, processes, IT solutions and organizational forms. In particular, there is a lack of support from appropriate IT...
The “W-Modell” – A Systems Engineering based Approach to Active Systems Development
Die Entwicklung aktiver Systeme ist gekennzeichnet durch die Integration von elektronischen Komponenten in mechanische Strukturen. Dabei wird das Verhalten des Gesamtsystems auf innere und äußere Einflüsse