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Ziel des Projekts 'eCloud' ist es, mittels der Forschungsergebnisse kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) zu befähigen, ohne vertieftes Energiewissen und bei geringer Ablenkung vom Tagesgeschäft ein flexibles Energiemanagement zu implementieren, welches für momentane und zukünftige Herausforderungen im Bereich der Energieverwendung gewappnet ist. Die Konzeption eines flexiblen Energiemanagements fußt dabei auf unterschiedlichen Anwendungsfällen und dafür notwendigen Ausbaustufen. So wird es ermöglicht, abhängig von der Ausgangssituation der KMU unternehmensspezifische Implementierungsstufen abzuleiten, die ein Optimum aus Aufwand und Nutzen widerspiegeln. Das diesem Bericht zugrundeliegende Vorhaben wird mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung unter dem Förderkennzeichen 01LY1608A gefördert.
Nowadays manufacturing companies are facing many different challenges as they are finding themselves in a dynamic and complex environment. Industrie 4.0 and its principles can help to manage these challenges. For example, companies should follow a principle called continuity of engineering. This continuity enables parallel development and production planning. One important measure to allow a continuity of engineering is the appropriate integration of IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology) within the company as well as along the whole value chain. Meant is the networking of machines and plant equipment with IT systems. The management of information resources for example allows data based decisions. Therefore, companies need to have a profound knowledge about the relationship between the integration and information processing of information systems.
There is a common understanding that a certain degree of IT and OT integration highly depends on the company’s typology, which we found out can be represented by the company’s business model. Therefore, we developed a methodology to identify the company’s business model and to derive relevant success factors, both based on a workshop-concept. Based on expert interviews, this enabled us to link the business model or company’s typology with the most important information management principles.
People’s (and goods’) transport will fundamentally change due to autonomous driving and emission-reduced drives. This enables new mobility concepts, especially for inner-city transport of people. An example for such autonomous vehicles are so-called people-movers: small electrically powered busses carrying up to 15 passengers from individual departure points to individual destinations. Next to the research regarding autonomous driving and alternative types of drives, it is also necessary to study and research how future users are willing to use new types of inner-city transport. Such transport needs specific information platforms organizing the trips and routing the people mover. Those platforms do not yet exist.
As part of our research, we developed an exemplary people-mover platform architecture. We were using methods from agile software development to gather customer requirements, as well as an information logistics concept as a validated link between user requirements and the architecture. We designed the architecture using microservices to enable growth and adaptability at the same time. As the research is still going on, these characteristics are necessary in order to keep building a customer-focused platform for the inner-city mobility of the future.