Taking into account the complexity of the systems around us is the first step towards understanding them. In this post, our expert Dr. Julien Siebert (Fraunhofer IESE) describes the most important characteristics of a complex system from his point of…
In our blog series on „Time Traveling with Data Science“, we previously introduced different tasks in time series analysis. In this blog post, we now present the task of Outlier Detection. Outliers are data so different from others that one…
On 1 June 2021, the BMWi-funded project SPELL was launched (BMWi=German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs). The project acronym stands for “Semantic Platform for Intelligent Decision-Making and Mission Support in Control Centers and Situation Rooms” (in German: “Semantische Plattform zur…
Over the course of time, the indispensability of information and communications technology as an integral part of modern software-based systems has also given rise to the demand for more sophisticated development approaches. Among those, the established V-Model and its novel…
Future-proof decision making can be enabled by Continuous Planning and Continuous Budgeting with Continuous Integration of Digital Twins: Today we continue the series Continuous Engineering for Industrie 4.0, where we are exploring how continuous engineering practices should be instantiated to the automation domain to support Industrie 4.0 principles.
Rolling out changes in complex systems is always a challenge. Regardless of whether a software component needs to be modified or whether a change in the communication network needs to be made, any change may lead to unexpected behavior. Continuous…
Industry 4.0 and Digital Twins promise many benefits, such as an efficient lot size 1 or various optimizations. However, successfully implementing these concepts requires a sophisticated IT infrastructure. What are the requirements on this infrastructure and how can it be…
Controller Area Network bus or CAN bus analysis is crucial for detecting the loss of important messages. In vehicle systems and many sophisticated embedded applications, preventing failures in the early development phase is an important demand of the market nowadays….
This is the final article in a series of five blog posts on requirements documentation. Where documenting requirements is considered a de facto standard in classical projects, Agile contexts tend to avoid it, as it is seen purely as unreasonable…
The documentation of requirements is an important means within requirements engineering. In projects with few requirements changes over their runtime, good documentation can be achieved with relative ease. For agile projects, however, it is in their nature that their requirements…
