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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.
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.
Integrationsmanagement
(2022)
Die Notwendigkeit, Insellösungen zugunsten einer integrierten IT-Landschaft abzuschaffen, wird seit über 30 Jahren diskutiert. Produzierende Unternehmen haben Konzepte bisher nur unzulänglich umgesetzt, selbst im Bereich der klassischen Office-IT. Es besteht eine große Vielfalt an Systemen, die redundant Daten speichern und nicht zur Entscheidungsfindung genutzt werden. Im Rahmen von Industrie 4.0 spielt das Integrationsmanagement eine außerordentliche Rolle, da die Digitalisierung des Unternehmens vor allem die Nutzung und Erweiterung der vorhandenen Datenquellen des Unternehmens erfordert. Darin sind sowohl die klassischen Informationssysteme als auch Operational Technology (OT) auf dem Shopfloor inbegriffen. Durch die Konvergenz von IT und OT werden Datensilos zunehmend aufgelöst. Der entwickelte Integrationsprozess wird in sieben Phasen unterteilt: (1) Bestimmung der allgemeinen Integrationsziele, (2) Ist-Analyse, (3) Detaillierung der Integrationsziele in Anwendungsfällen (4) Abgleich zum Status quo, (5) Ableiten von Anwendungsfällen, (6) Nutzwert-Analyse sowie (7) Erstellung der Gesamtroadmap. (Quelle: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-63758-6_16)