Connected, digitalized welding production — Secure, ubiquitous utilization of data across process layers
Abstract
A connected, digitalized welding production unlocks vast and dynamic potentials: from improving state of the art welding to new business models in production. For this reason, offering frameworks, which are capable of addressing multiple layers of applications on the one hand and providing means of data security and privacy for ubiquitous dataflows on the other hand, is an important step to enable the envisioned advances. In this context, welding production has been introduced from the perspective of interlaced process layers connecting information sources across various entities. Each layer has its own distinct challenges from both a process view and a data perspective. Besides, investigating each layer promises to reveal insight into (currently unknown) process interconnections. This approach has been substantiated by methods for data security and privacy to draw a line between secure handling of data and the need of trustworthy dealing with sensitive data among different parties and therefore partners. In conclusion, the welding production has to develop itself from an accumulation of local and isolated data sources towards a secure industrial collaboration in an Internet of Production.
Samuel Mann
Dr. rer. nat. Jan Pennekamp
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tobias Brockhoff
Anahita Farhang
Mahsa Pourbafrani
Lukas Oster
Merih Seran Uysal
Rahul Sharma
Uwe Reisgen
Klaus Wehrle
Head of Group