DIGITALIZATION EXPERT GROUP (DEG)

The ECLASS board founded the Digitalization Expert Group in the spring of 2017 to provide a platform for all digitalization-related issues, and to help work through these issues in a structured and directed way.

Members of the DEG are recruited from among experienced subject-area experts, who are delegated by their companies to address the topic of ECLASS, and who are themselves active in the areas of smart manufacturing and/or the internet of things (IoT).
Participation in the DEG is free of charge, and is open to all interested subject-area experts.

DEG tasks

DEG’s main focus is on monitoring, managing and supporting projects, as well as on coordinating all ECLASS activities in the areas of digitalization.

• Collection and distribution of information, both internally and externally to ECLASS
• Review and initiation of research work and projects
• Cooperation with other committees and associations
• Compilation of requirements
• Provision of advice to the ECLASS board
• Preparation of decision documents

Always with a focus on digitalization.

Publications

ECLASS white paper "Distributed Ledger-based Infrastructure for Industrial Digital Twins"

To master digitalization of industry the comprehensive availability of information is a key requirement. This is why concepts like the asset administration shell (AAS) and digital twins (DT) have been created.
Within this Whitepaper an approach is introduced to realize a decentralized registry for services offered around I4.0 components. How this decentralized registry is applied in practice is explained using five practice-relevant use cases which span the whole lifecycle of the asset.

Language: EN
Published: 2020

ECLASS-Whitepaper "Distributed Ledger-based Infrastructure for Industrial Digital Twins"

Management Summary of the white paper

In this white paper, experts from the Digitalization Expert Group (DEG) describe the contribution ECLASS can make to digitalization and machine-to-machine communication today and in the future.

Because the ECLASS standard can accommodate a vast number of technical properties, it marks an ideal first step in targeting digital twins. This brochure is intended to offer guidance in explaining how using ECLASS can foster smart manufacturing.

Language: EN / DE / CN
Published: 2018

ECLASS white paper "Toward smart manufacturing with data and semantics"

Asset Administration Shell goes ECLASS

Experts of Plattform Industrie 4.0, ZVEI and ECLASS work together to enable ECLASS users to quickly standardize Asset Administration Shell elements in ECLASS and apply ECLASS mechanisms to their use.

Members of the DEG

Artur Bondza, Pepperl+Fuchs SE

Artur Bondza, Pepperl+Fuchs SE

Head of Product Information & Content Management

Engineer Artur Bondza studied technical editing at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, with a concentration on mechatronics.
He has worked since 2004 at Pepperl+Fuchs, focusing on streamlining and digitalizing content- and data-management processes. He has been a member of the ECLASS Operating Arm committee since 2014, and in 2017, founded the DEG, which he continues to serve as spokesperson. True to the creed “No digitalization without standardization,” Bondza is also active with the ZVEI, DIN and the DKE, with the goal of realizing the vision of Industry 4.0 and the internet of things (IoT) through comprehensive standards.

Alexander Belyaev, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

Alexander Belyaev, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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.

Dr. Birgit Boss, Robert Bosch GmbH

Dr. Birgit Boss, Robert Bosch GmbH

Dr. Birgit Boss works with Robert Bosch GmbH in different business areas and sectors in an international setting since 1996. She is a Software Engineer and Lead Software Architect with more than 20 years experience in the development and roll out of architectures, methods and standards for complex (embedded) systems. Areas of expertise include Software Architecture, Software Product Line Development, Software Ecosystems, Continuous Refactoring, Process Development and AUTOSAR. Her current interest is on Industrial IoT, semantic technologies and digital twin concepts (including the asset administration shell).

Dr. Birgit Boss is active in various standardization committees and activities in the context of industry 4.0, the AG1 “Reference Architectures, Standards and Norms” of the German Plattform Industrie 4.0, Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), ZVEI Work Group “Models and Standards”, and others. She is convinced that standardization is a key factor for interoperability.

Dr. Birgit Boss studied computer science at the TH Darmstadt, Germany. She worked as a research engineer at the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) and received the PH.D. degree from the Karlsruhe University, Germany, in 1995.

Roland Heidel, Heidel Kommunikationslösungen e.K.

Roland Heidel, Heidel Kommunikationslösungen e.K.

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.

Oliver Hillermeier, SAP SE

Standard Architect IoT / Industry 4.0

Committees:

Industry 4.0 Platform AG1 and SG2 in ZVEI, Expert Panel DKE, ECLASS Board and Steering Committee, VDI 2770, IDS
(Previous) employers:

ABB (5 years), Strategic Buyer, Sales Engineer
SAP (17 years), Product Management, Presales and Standard Architect

Gerald Lobermeier, Weidmüller Gruppe

Gerald Lobermeier, Weidmüller Gruppe

Head of Digital Product Management

Gerald Lobermeier is responsible for product management for the digital product at Weidmüller. He evaluates customer and project requirements regarding new data-driven business models. Besides new service options like software, automation projects and augmented reality, Mr. Lobermeier evaluates artificial intelligence and machine learning in an industrial context.
Mr. Lobermeier has been involved with Enterprise Information Management for more than 20 years.

ECLASS e.V.

Member of the Operating Arm and Steering Committee
Member of the Center of Research and Development and the Digitalization Expert Group

In addition, he is active in various committees (ETIM, ZVEI, IEC) on classification and standardization.

Josef Schmelter, PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG

Josef Schmelter, PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG

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.