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Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal
Human, Cognition and Digital Twins: Shaping an Industry Where Humans and Machines Collaborate
Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Engineering an Industry 4.0-Compliant Digital Product Passport Within a Circular Economy Context
Armando Walter Colombo, Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics (I2AR), University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany
Keynote Lecture
Paulo Jorge Pinto Leitao
Polytechnic Institute of Braganca
Portugal
Brief Bio
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Human, Cognition and Digital Twins: Shaping an Industry Where Humans and Machines Collaborate
Yannick Naudet
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Luxembourg
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Brief Bio
Dr. Yannick Naudet is Lead Scientist and Scientific Coordinator at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). His main research topics concern the human digital twin and cyber-physical and social systems, context-aware adaptation and personalization, systems modeling and systems interoperability, especially focusing on approaches based on ontologies. Among others, he conducted research on human digital twin, cognitive Interoperability and cognitive digital twin, cyber-physical-social systems and personalization, enterprise interoperability, dynamic services composition optimization, ontology-based personalization, semantic web, ontology alignment and intelligent crowd-sourcing. He holds a PhD in Computer Sciences, Automatic and Signal Processing and a full ADR (“Autorisation à Diriger des Recherches”) from University of Luxembourg. Dr. Naudet was involved in multi-disciplinary European research projects in diverse domains including enterprise, multimedia, education, cultural heritage and healthcare. He is currently co-leading AI4C2PS, a French-Luxembourgish project dealing with cognitive interoperability in Digital Twin -supported cyber-physical enterprise, and coordinates research on Human Digital Twin across four international research projects. He was part of the INTEROP NoE (IST-FP6) and a member of the scientific committee of the GIS INTEROP Grande Region, pole of the INTEROP V-LAB. He is co-chair of the yearly OTM/IFAC/IFIP EI2N workshop on “Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking” and of the SMAP international workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation & Personalisation.
Abstract
Humans have always been a part of industrial systems, but they mostly had the role of operators, using technological tools to which they had to adapt. While Industry 5.0 and the vision of the future industry emphasize human-centricity, advances in generative AI and robotics are enabling technological systems to take on complex, knowledge-intensive tasks, that only humans could do so far. It seems we have two choices now: letting machines do everything for us, or design them for collaborative synergy with humans. This talk explores the second one, focusing on the role of cognition and the human digital twin in enabling seamless collaboration between humans and smart, intelligent, or cognitive technological systems.
Engineering an Industry 4.0-Compliant Digital Product Passport Within a Circular Economy Context
Armando Walter Colombo
Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics (I2AR), University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer
Germany
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Brief Bio
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armando Walter Colombo (Fellow IEEE) joined the Department of Electrotechnical and Industrial Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Emden-Leer, Germany, became Full Professor in August 2010 and Director of the Institute for Industrial Informatics, Automation and Robotics (I2AR) in 2012. He worked from 2001 until 2018 as Manager for Collaborative Innovation Projects and also as Edison Level 2 Group Senior Expert at Schneider Electric, Industrial Business Unit. His research interests are in the fields of industrial cyber-physical systems, industrial digitalization and system-of-systems engineering, Internet-of-Services, Industry 4.0-compliant solutions. Prof. Colombo has over 30 industrial patents and more than 300 per-review publications (see https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=FgFDTMEAAAAJ&hl=en). He has extensive experience in managing multi-cultural research teams in multi-regional projects and has participated in leading positions in many international research and innovation projects. With his contributions, he has performed scientific and technical seminal contributions that are nowadays being used as one of the bases of what is recognized as “The 4th Industrial Revolution”: networked collaborative smart cyber-physical systems that are penetrating the daily life, producing visible societal changes and impacting all levels of the society. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access Journal of the IES (OJIES), Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems Council, senior member of the IEEE IES Administrative Committee (AdCom), and member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (IES, TEMS, Systems Council). Prof. Colombo is working as expert of the EU REA, CHIPS JU and EUREKA Programs. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World /Engineering 99-00/01 and in Outstanding People of the XX Century (Bibliographic Centre Cambridge, UK).
Abstract
Rationale of the Keynote:
We are witnessing rapid changes in the industrial environment, mainly driven by business and societal needs towards production customization and the digitalization of the economy, i.e., digitalization and interconnection of products, services, enterprises, and people. This trend is supported by new disruptive adances in the cross-fertilization of concepts and the amalgamation of information-, communication-, control- and mechatronics technology-driven approaches in traditional industrial systems. In this context, industrial informatics combine the progress achieved by the application of large distributed and networked computing systems on product and production system design, planning, engineering, and operation with the power of digital data that are produced by industrial processes, collected by the Internet of Things, processed by Human/(Natural-) and Human-created (Artificial-) Intelligence (AI). The technological, economic, and social impacts of these developments are so enormous that the whole process is labelled as the 4th Industrial Revolution. This digital transformation being developed world-wide, is affecting all phases of the society and generating profound changes in the form that Human interact and sometimes collaborate among them and with technical assets.
The transition, the transformation, the migration from Industry 3.0, i.e., from IEC 62264 / IEC 61512 (ISA-95 / ISA´88) based industrial systems into an Industry 4.0-compliant eco-system is ongoing. This includes (i) the integration of legacy with emerging Information/Communication technologies, (ii) the digitalization and networking across value networks involving a multitude of stakeholders in complex relationships within a circular economy, (iii) the re-skilling of human resources embedded into that digitalized eco-system, as well as (iv) the necessary “concrete” response to the newest regulation of the European Union requiring nearly all products sold in the EU to feature a Digital Product Passport (DPP).
Scope of the Keynote:
On the one side, Industry 4.0-compliant systems are all Industrial Eco-Systems where components (Assets, Things) have been migrated into digitalized and networked Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. This means, digitalized and networked assets are nodes of an Internet-based communication and information network. Each of those nodes is able to expose and/or consume digitalized data and information in the form of “services”, for performing new form of application and business based on Industrial Internet of Services Technology (IIoS).
On the other side, Digital Product Passport is defined as a digital record providing stakeholders across product value chains with access to comprehensive data and information about each product´s lifecycle, i.e., origin, composition, environmental impact, end-of-life aspects/characteristics, and other related businesses.
The structural and functional interdependences between the digitalized Assets, I4.0 components, digitalized Things in Internet (Industrial-Internet-of-Things (IIoT)), in the context of the “Engineering a DPP”, are effectively evident if the “Digitalization and Networking Process” is formally specified and implemented following (a) the DIN Specification 91345 Reference Architecture Model for Industry 4.0 (RAMI4.0) and (b) the engineering principles associated to the Asset Administration Shell (Digital Twins (DTs)) approaches and technologies.
From this perspective, the Keynote will provide: (i) Details about the Engineering-Principles, -Methods and -Standard-Technologies for the Digital Transformation in Industry, conducting to effectively engineering a Digital Asset/Thing Passport within the context of a Circular Economy; (ii) The rationale of the Systems-of-Systems Engineering approach, comprehensively backed-up by the DIN Specification 91345 RAMI 4.0 (Reference Architecture Model for Industry 4.0) and particularly by the implementation of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) Technology; and (iii) Details about an Engineering approach to implement a DPP on the basis of the RAMI 4.0 and AAS specifications, with dedicated exemplary use cases.