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Johannes Schmitt

Somayeh Malakuti

Sten Gruener

Prerna Juhlin

Marcel Dix

Heiko Koziolek

Thomas Gamer

Jens Doppelhamer

Roland Braun

Andreas Burger

Soeren Finster

Gary Hachadorian

Stefan Bleil

Matthias Guth

Peter Weil

Jens Kubatta

Daniel Voss

Benjamin Buengel

Prerna Bihani

Sören Finster

Daniel Voß

Benjamin BÜNGEL

A computer-implemented method for retrieving data that relates to at least one industrial asset includes the steps of: receiving, from a requesting entity, a query for data objects from one or more lifecycle phases of the at least one industrial asset; mapping the query to one or more types of data objects that are available from one or more given data sources relating to the at least one industrial asset; obtaining, from the one or more data sources, one or more data objects of the one or more types; producing, from the one or more data objects, a response to the query; and transmitting the response to the requesting entity.

Retrieving industrial asset data from disparate data sources

A computer system for interoperable data exchange between a plurality of information systems via a digital representation service associated with a digital representation of a physical device with each information system being at least one of an information source and an information consumer regarding data associated with the physical device, the digital representation being a virtual entity replicating data of the physical device and data associated with the device life cycle, includes: at least one digital representation service for the physical device, the at least one digital representation service having: an interface for receiving a request for device related data; a management module for generating and updating the digital representation of the device, the digital representation storing a plurality of data models with each stored data model being associated with a particular information system; and a semantic relations library storing semantic relations between model element types from stored data models.

System and method for interoperable communication of an automation system component with multiple information sources

A production line for manufacturing a building block, which includes at least one component, the production line including: a central conveyor line; at least one feeding line for feeding the at least one component to the central conveyor line; a manufacturing tool set for processing the at least one component; and a control unit for controlling the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set. The controlling at least one of the central conveyor line, the feeding line, and/or the manufacturing tool set includes: retrieving an asset-information about the at least one component and/or the manufacturing tool set, conveying the at least one component according to the asset-information by the feeding line to the central conveyor line, retrieving a processing-information and/or a manufacturing tool set information about processing the at least one component, and processing the at least one component by the manufacturing tool set.

Production line for manufacturing a part of a vehicle

A process analyzer adapter includes: a first part connectable to a process analyzer, the first part being rotatable about a first axis; a second part; and a third part. The first part is rotationally connected to the second part. The second part is rotationally connected to the third part. The second part is rotatable about a second axis, rotation of the second part about the second axis tilting the first axis. The third part is connectable to a flange of an industrial process equipment.

Process analyzer adapter

An industrial information identification and retrieval system includes: a crawler; a search engine; a result processor; and a web user interface 'web UL' The crawler identifies devices and their associated Open Platform Communication Unified Architecture “OPC UA” servers within a network as identified OPC UA servers. The crawler browses the identified OPC UA servers and extracts and stores data items in a database as extracted data items. The search engine searches the extracted data items and provides search results to the result processor. The result processor determines a score for each search result. The web UI presents the search results according to the scores.

Industrial information identification and retrieval system

A device for gas-tight connection includes: a first connection point with a terminal surface; a second connection point with a stationary, predetermined reference surface of a pipe flange connection, which is arranged relative to the terminal surface by an offset angle which is compensated for by an angular offset compensation; and a flanged disc unit. The first connection point includes a central ball-and-socket joint arrangement as an angular misalignment compensation. The central ball-and-socket joint arrangement has a tube section with a convex distal end region configured to interact in an articulated manner with a concave annular region, corresponding thereto, of the flanged disc unit. A side surface region of the flanged disc unit includes at least one adjusting screw for adapting to the offset angle so as to adjust a local distance to a counter-disc fixedly fastened coaxially to a pipe section adjacent to the convex distal end region.

Device for gas-tight connection between a connection surface and a reference surface

A method for enabling a secure communication with a target device over a network includes: opening an unsecured OPC UA Endpoint by an OPC UA Server that runs on the target device; connecting to the OPC UA Server over the network by an OPC UA Client running on a first device, and requesting the initial device certificate; receiving the initial device certificate by unsecured communication over the network; validating, by the first device, the initial device certificate; establishing, by the first device, a device certificate; encrypting, by the first device, at least the device certificate; sending the encrypted data over the network; decrypting, by the target device, the encrypted data using an initial device private key associated with the initial device certificate to obtain at least the device certificate; storing the device certificate on the target device; and opening a secured OPC UA Endpoint by the OPC UA Server.

Method of enabling a secure communication to a target device over a network

A computer system for automated model integration of an information model with a corresponding application includes: an information model server for exposing an information model to a consumer, the exposed information model including model-elements for exposing types or classes, and for exposing instances of types or classes and their member-values; an application component for providing application code augmented with mapping descriptions defining how an internal information model of the application is mapped to the exposed information model; and a model integration component that: registers internal information model-elements to be exposed; maps the registered internal information model-elements to exposed information model-elements in accordance with the mapping descriptions; and updates an information model-element by: detecting a change of an internal or exposed information model-element; determining a synchronization direction; and performing match-making to determine a model-element corresponding to the changed model-element by using signatures of the corresponding information model-elements.

System and methods with reduced complexity in the integration of exposed information models with applications

A computer-implemented method for semantic-based planning, engineering, and commissioning a project in a building or home automation system, using multiple technologies/protocols of devices including sensors, actuators and control devices, the method being based on a semantic based model having an automatic configuration generation for specific technologies/protocols from a function-based device specification, the method including the following multiple transformation steps: calculating/creating a configuration for a specific protocol/technology using a mapping complex or structure of rules or processing instructions that takes into account the semantic-based model, technology models, heuristics, and/or technology constraints of the devices; generating an internal model of the building automation system with communication objects as an output of the automatic created configuration calculation; transforming the internal model, depending on a targeted technology/protocol, in order to create either application programming interface (API) calls or a format for a mandatory tool, and downloading the created configuration into the building automation devices.

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Johannes Schmitt