DIGITALIZATION EXPERT GROUP (DEG)

M.Sc. Alexander Belyaev (1987) studied electrical engineering at OvGU Magdeburg. There he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Automation Engineering since 2014. His main research areas are systems architecture for the interaction of I4.0 – components and the semantic methods for interoperability in the digital factory. He works on standardization of I4.0 – concepts in several working groups at ZVEI, ECLASS e.V. and VDI/VDE-GMA.

After completing his studies in electrical engineering, Roland Heidel started his career by working on the development of industrial communication systems at Siemens in 1977. He was a technical project manager for a joint project dealing with field buses for the industrial field communication system "Profibus". He also headed multiple EU projects dealing with industrial automation technology, with a particular focus on product data engineering. Heidel was head of an advanced development department and, until he left Siemens, was also head of the department "Standards & Regulations" for the divisions "Digital Factory (DF)" and "Process Industries and Drives (PD)".
Until 2016 he was Chairman of the standards committee IEC/TC 65 "Industrial -process measurement, control and automation"; until fall 2014 speaker of the Industrie 4.0 Working Group 2 (Reference Architectures, Standards and Norms) and until 2015 speaker for its mirror committee in the ZVEI (Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V., the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association). Heidel has run his own company, Kommunikationslösungen e.K, since 2015 and is active in numerous Industrie 4.0 working groups and the ZVEI.

Josef Schmelter is working at PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG since 1997, where he is responsible for the classification in the ERP and PLM systems. As part of this activity, he is active in committees of the ECLASS e.V. of the IEC and ETIM Germany e.V. to ensure the provision of product data in the formats requested by the customer, including the provision of product data for the engineering tools (CAD / CAE) of the customers , The associated. requirements for adaptation and enhancement of the product information management system, the integration of data provision into the product development processes and the definition of system interfaces.

Head of Product Information Management

Sven Köcher is working at Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG since 2015, where he is responsible for the product information management. This includes data management processes, the administration of the system landscape for the product information, the classification and description of the digital products as well as the provision of data for target channels such as wholesalers and engineering systems.

Before that, he worked in other companies as a CAE administrator and was responsible for the standardization and automated creation of product documentation.

He is active in ECLASS CEG CAX since 2015 and in other groups such as DEG since 2021.

Project Manger in the Process Automation Division

Dr.-Ing. Oliver Drumm is a project manager in the Digital Industries preliminary development in the Process Automation Division at Siemens AG. Main working areas: End-to-end process, tools and technical product data in engineering for process engineering plants along the entire life cycle, active participation in ECLASS e.V. committees.

Head of Sales and Project Management

Sebastian Böttjer majored in Procurement and Logistics at the University of Kassel and has been working at D&TS GmbH since 2019, where he offers solutions for professional master data management and classification as a consultant in his role as Head of Sales and Project Management. He supports companies across industries in optimizing their master data quality, setting up a standard classification such as ECLASS and integrating automatic processes for data supply and maintenance. According to the principle ″Good data quality - technical & commercial - is the foundation for successful transformation projects and digitization initiatives", Sebastian Böttjer consults his customers and gets them ready for the future.

Previously, he started his career at B. BRAUN Melsungen AG in maintenance and then as Strategic Procurement Manager MRO. In this role, he led the "MRO Excellent Project" for automating procurement processes and realizing savings in spare parts procurement and stocking. In addition, he coordinated the "Global Plant Maintenance" classification project, where, among other things, all spare parts were classified using ECLASS. He joined the DEG in 2021.