Projects
List of Projects
Business Informatics Group, TU Wien
Fundings:
Type: | Grant funds |
Source: | Wirtschaftsagentur Wien Ein Fonds der Stadt Wien |
Region: | National |
Body: | Vienna Business Agency (WAW) |
Call: | Kommunikation/18-22 |
Astract:
With the Vienna Informatics Living Lab, the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien establishes an interface to schools and builds a systematic offer from autumn 2018 onwards: School classes and teachers may take part in free, didactically coordinated workshops on current and diverse IT topics. As the first stage of expansion, the permanent exhibition "Abenteuer Informatik" is installed on Campus Favoritenstraße. 40 exhibition panels with 20 experimental stations make exciting topics such as binary representation, efficient algorithms and limits of computability an interactive and hands-on experience. In the current project, target-group-oriented workshops are developed, supporting educational material is prepared, and a stakeholder network is established. The lab provides important technical impulses for the youth, allows low-threshold access to TU Wien, and conveys informatics as forward-looking, exciting and diverse. It arouses enthusiasm, curiosity and interest - in girls and boys alike.
Innovationslehrgang zur Gestaltung der Digitalen Transformation in der Produktentwicklung und Produktion
Christian Huemer (Leader)Wolfgang Kastner (Leader)Burkhard Kittl (Leader)Thomas Frühwirth (Member)Brigitte Ratzer (Leader)Gerhard Wiesinger (Subleader)Manfred Grafinger (Leader)
Keywords: Industrie 4.0
Fundings:
Type: | Grant funds |
Source: | FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH |
Region: | National |
Body: | Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) |
Programs: | Forschungskompetenzen für die Wirtschaft, Thematic programme |
Call: | Innovationslehrgänge |
Astract:
In 2015, „Industrie 4.0“ is still just a buzzword for most companies in Austria. However, they understand the increasing importance of the topic. Currently, Austrian companies have a lack of detailed knowledge towards their transformation to Industrie 4.0. Highly qualified employees are a prerequisite for staying competitive in tomorrow’s production industry. Thus, the curriculum of DigiTrans 4.0 – which was collaboratively designed by TU Wien and the industry partners – considers both the core competencies of the participating companies and the recommendations for implementing the strategic initiative Industrie 4.0 [KWH13] by the German Industrie 4.0 Working Group.
DigiTrans 4.0 aims at progressively introducing the participants to the vision of Industrie 4.0. For this purpose the Faculty of Informatics and the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of TU Wien join forces to educate the companies on topics that focus on the integration of Business IT and Production IT as well as on the integration of all information flows in a value network. Accordingly, the DigiTrans 4.0 curriculum is characterized by an inter-disciplinary and modular structure following the motto “cross-over lectures for cross-innovation”. The modules of DigiTrans 4.0 are the following: (1) Product Lifecycle Management, (2) Models and Methods for the Digital Transformation, (3) Industrial Communication and Automated Manufacturing Systems, (4) Value Networks, (5) Integration Engineering and (6) Gender und Workplace 4.0. All these modules are taught in theory and practice and are supported by the Pilot Plant of TU Wien. The participant of DigiTrans 4.0 will get to know a framework and a method set for the digital transformation to be used on their way from the classical automation pyramid to a value network spanning over things, services, and humans.
Given the large size of the consortia, we are able to include companies with a lot of different characteristics. This should foster the multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas and we expect to gain knowledge in the following areas: (i) joint development of new fields of applications in Industrie 4.0, (ii) expansion of TU Wien’s skill set by industry-related topics and (iii) strengthening of the technological development skills and innovation skills in forward-looking areas of technology, such as cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) and Internet of Things (IoT). Last but not least, we aim at fostering sustainable co-operations not only between academia and companies, but also among the participating companies.
Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems (MPM4CPS)
Gerti Kappel (Subleader)Manuel Wimmer (Leader) (Member)
Fundings:
Type: | Grant funds |
Source: | COST Office |
Region: | EU |
Body: | European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) |
Call: | IC 1404 |
Fundings:
Type: | Grant funds |
Source: | FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH |
Region: | National |
Body: | Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) |
Programs: | Innovationsscheck Plus, Basic programs |
Type: | Contract/collaboration |
Source: | Sparx Systems Software GmbH |
COSIMO: Collaborative Configuration Systems Integration and Modeling
Gerti Kappel (Leader)Philip Langer (Subleader)Manuel Wimmer (Subleader) (Member)
Partners:
Partner: | Siemens AG Österreich |
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Austria |
Fundings:
Type: | Grant funds |
Source: | Wirtschaftsagentur Wien Ein Fonds der Stadt Wien |
Region: | National |
Body: | Vienna Business Agency (WAW) |
Call: | IKT Wien 2013 |
Astract:
The goal of the project COSIMO is to build up a portfolio configurator platform for leveraging tool integration for railway automation systems and, in general, for production systems at Siemens. The core of this framework comprehensively bases on model-driven concepts and semantic system's techniques.
COSIMO stretches over three unique but highly interwoven research goals:
- First, support roundtripable and reusable model exchange among heterogeneous engineering for using tool metamodels and tool adapters with model transformations.
- Second, facilitate consistent collaborative modeling between teams in a non-intrusive way, by model virtualization mechanisms together with redundancy and detection mechanisms that are based on specialized model management operators.
- Third, enable guided reconfiguration of evolving component versions across tool boundaries to ensure compatibility of component versions and validity of configurations, by explicitly representing component versions and providing proper reasoning mechanisms and reconfiguration languages.
Multi-Tenant ERP System in the Cloud: A Model-Driven Approach Based on the Resource-Event-Agent Ontology
Christian Huemer (Leader) (Member)Alexandra Mazak-Huemer (Member) (Member)
Fundings:
Type: | Grant funds |
Source: | FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH |
Region: | National |
Body: | Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) |
Programs: | Bridge, Basic programs |
Call: | Bridge - 17. Ausschreibung |
Type: | Contract/collaboration |
Source: | eventus Marketingservice GmbH |
Astract:
Cloud Computing führte in den letzten fünf Jahren zu einem Paradigmenwechsel in der IT-Branche. Über die Cloud werden Rechenkapazität, Datenspeicher, Netzwerkkapazitäten oder auch fertige Software zur Verfügung gestellt. In diesem Projekt adressieren wir die letztere Variante von cloud-basierten Lösungen, welche auch als Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) bekannt ist. In SaaS Lösungen werden Applikationen zentral verwaltet und können von überall aus aufgerufen werden. Die Lösungen bieten eine hohe Verfügbarkeit und automatische, zentrale Sicherung. Der Kunde hat somit immer eine aktuelle Version und kann sich auf das Wesentliche, das Benutzen der Applikation, konzentrieren. Prinzipiell können alle Arten von Software als cloud-basierte Lösung angeboten werden, so auch ERP Systeme. Im Falle von ERP Systemen bedeutet dies, statt eine eigene Instanz der ERP Software an Kunden auszuliefern, wird in der Cloud zentral eine einzelne Instanz des ERP Systems gehostet. Dementsprechend greifen alle Kunden über die Cloud auf diese Instanz zu. Aus diesem Grund ist es von zentraler Bedeutung, dass das ERP System in der Cloud mandantenfähig ist. Ein wesentlicher Aspekt bei ERP Systemen ist die interne Prozessunterstützung und der grundsätzlich brancheneutrale Ansatz. Obwohl auf abstrakter Ebene die Geschäftsprozesse unterschiedlicher Unternehmen sehr ähnlich ablaufen und auf gemeinsamen Kernbausteinen beruhen, sind im Detail die konkreten Ausprägungen von Unternehmen zu Unternehmen sehr unterschiedlich. Daraus folgt, dass eine individuelle und rasche Adaptierung an unterschiedliche Bedürfnisse unterschiedlicher Unternehmen mittels Customizing (Anpassung) zu erfolgen hat. Idealerweise erfolgt diese Anpassung durch Parametrisierung ohne Programmierung. Ziel dieses Projekts ist ein kostengünstiger Ansatz zur unternehmensspezifischen Anpassung eines mandantenfähigen ERP Systems. Die Mandantenfähigkeit stellt in diesem Zusammenhang eine zusätzliche Herausforderung dar, weil zwar für jeden Mandanten individuelle User Interfaces mit individuellen Ausprägungen zur Verfügung gestellt werden, aber alle Mandanten eine gemeinsame Infrastruktur, wie zum Beispiel eine generische Datenbank nutzen sollen. Zum Zweck der unternehmensspezifischen Anpassungen wird ein modellgetriebener Ansatz verfolgt. Das heißt, Standardgeschäftsfälle werden mit Hilfe einer grafischen Modellierungssprache als Referenzmodelle beschrieben. Zudem können mit der grafischen Modellierungssprache unternehmensspezifische Anpassungen der Referenzmodelle vorgenommen werden. Auf Basis dieser Modelle können User Interfaces und Datenbankmappings erzeugt werden. Als Sprache zur Beschreibung der Geschäftsmodelle verwenden wir die REA (Resource-Event-Agent) Ontologie. REA ist eine universelle Sprache, die eindeutige Kommunikation ermöglicht und ein gemeinsames Verständnis für alle am Softwareentwicklungsprozess Beteiligten schafft. Der Projektname REAlist spiegelt einerseits den Bezug zur REA Ontologie wieder und andererseits nimmt er darauf Bezug, dass Auswertungen (Saldenlisten) wie im klassischen ERP erstellt werden können. Wir möchten aber auch betonen, dass wir beim Projekt realistisch bleiben wollen. Es ist klar, dass mit der Anzahl der am Projekt beteiligten Personen innerhalb von 2 Jahren kein ERP System in vollem Funktionalitätsumfang umgesetzt werden kann. Vordergründig geht es im Projekt darum REA Konzepte mittels eines modellgetriebenen Ansatzes auf ein ERP Systems umzulegen und dieses als mandantenfähige SaaS Lösung zu konzipieren.
ARTIST: Advanced software-based seRvice provisioning and migraTIon of legacy Software
Gerti Kappel (Leader) (Member) (Member) (Member)Philip Langer (Member)Manuel Wimmer (Member)
Fundings:
Type: | Grant funds |
Source: | European Commission |
Region: | EU |
Body: | European Commission |
Programs: | FP7 I.3 COOPERATION Information and Communication Technologies, 7.Rahmenprogramm für Forschung, European Commission - Framework Programme |
Call: | FP7-ICT-2011-8 |
Proposal: | 317859 |
Astract:
Successful software has to evolve to keep it compatible and up to date. Up to 90% of software cost is spent on maintenance and of this 75% is spent on the development of new features for staying competitive. The industry progresses through periods of incremental development interlaced with true paradigm shifts. We are currently experiencing one of these paradigm shifts, as remarked by the European Commission: “The speed of change in Internet technologies continues to be impressive. Software is becoming more and more pervasive: it runs on the devices that we use every day ...[opening] a new world of possible applications” cf. Cloud computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering, European Union, 2011 (doi:10.2759/47598).
Accordingly, more and more traditional software vendors notice the need to transform their current business and technology model in order to remain competitive. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is seen as the most promising way to achieve this change. However, this transition from Software-off-the-shelf (often residing as legacy applications) to SaaS is a tremendous challenge comprising business, application and technical issues. Having an automated, vendor, technology and hardware independent way to migrate an application would permit the software to evolve easily even in case of transition to new paradigms.
ARTIST proposes a software migration approach covering the premigration and postmigration phases. The premigration phase analyzes the technical and non-technical consequences of migrations, supporting the decision-making process on how a migration should be done. The migration phase itself is based on Model Driven Engineering techniques to automate the reverse engineering of the legacy applications to platform independent models. These models are the input for the forward engineering process to generate and deploy modernized applications and to support future migrations. In the postmigration phase, the modernized applications are certified with respect to the stated goals of the premigration phase.
ARTIST will reduce the risk, time and cost of migrating legacy software. It will lower the barriers for companies (with existing software) wanting to take advantage of the latest technologies and business models, particularly when considering the current benefits of Cloud Computing and SaaS.