Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS), as an emerging Industry 4.0's technology,
trigger a paradigm shift from descriptive to prescriptive maintenance. In particular …

Predictive maintenance is one of the major drivers of Industry 4.0 as it can significantly
reduce costs by improving overall equipment effectiveness and extending the remaining …

Homomorphic encryption enables secure cloud computing over the complete data lifecycle.
As so-called in-use encryption methodology, it allows using encrypted data for, eg, data …

The high equipment intensity and complexity of production processes in semiconductor
manufacturing leads to challenging requirements regarding plant availability in this …

New technologies are driving the advancing digitalization of both consumer and industrial
environments. Especially in maintenance, new possibilities to predict malfunctions and …

Autonomous production control models facilitate coping with co-occurrent and ever-growing
production system complexity. The choice of the appropriate control model and objective …

Abstract Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) enable the intelligent, horizontal and
vertical interconnection of people, machines and objects throughout the enterprise in real …

Contemporary storage systems increasingly offer schema flexibility and support for semi-
structured data models. This is the case for document-oriented databases, which as such …

In this industrial case study, we present the development and use of a smart services
platform for polymer processing auxiliary equipment. Auxiliary equipment is crucial for …