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  • Data Security

    Data security is concerned with the practical implementation of data protection. This can affect all types of data in analog or digital form for which there is an interest in...

  • Data Protection

    The term data protection refers to protecting personal data against misuse and unauthorized access within the framework of the fundamental right to informational self-determination and privacy. Personal data relates to...

  • Smart Data

    Data is highly significant to generate helpful information for several processes, such as for business processes. However, the actual significance depends upon its implementation – the way it is used...

  • Big Data

    Due to increasing digitization and data acquisition, more and more complex data volumes accumulate in many areas. They prove to be too changeable, complex, or weakly structured to be made...

  • Shopfloor Management (SFM)

    Shop floor management is a term from lean management. Accordingly, shopfloor management is a strategy for optimizing management concepts in the manufacturing sector. Therefore, it is often referred to as...

  • Digital Twin

    The digital twin is the virtual image of a tangible or intangible object or process in the real world. The term “digital avatar” is also occasionally used. It represents actual...

  • Greenfield

    The term greenfield has its origins in construction planning and urban development. It refers to project planning on a previously undeveloped, undeveloped area, i.e., on the proverbial “greenfield”. In the...

  • Smart Factory

    The term Smart Factory refers to the visionary concept of a self-organizing production environment. The smart factory term is part of the German government’s Industry 4.0 project blueprint and defines...

  • opc ua

    OPC UA stands for Open Platform Communications United Architecture, an industrial information data transfer model. This open interface standard is unaffected by the software’s developer or platform provider and the...

  • TPM – Total Productive Maintenance

    Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is the concept of using equipment, machines, and employees for maintenance to improve the quality and integrity of the production. The main idea behind TPM is...

  • FMEA

    FMEA is the acronym for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. Why is it important? Issues and defects are an integral part of the system development lifecycle of any product. Bugs...

  • Industry 4.0

    Industry 4.0 – digitalization enters the scene This term goes back to a research project within the German government’s high-tech strategy framework and refers to the concept of digitalized industrial...