Digitalization in the Automation Domain 2023

Jan Christian Vestre was born in 1986 and comes from Haugesund. He was general manager of the furniture manufacturer Vestre AS until he was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry.

Vestre has a law degree from the University of Oslo.

Trond Salater (1968) is an electrician and has an bachelor’s degree in power electronics, power engineering. He has several years of experience in the process industry (pulp and paper), HVAC as well as in testing and certification of electrical equipment, Household, Ex/Atex and Machinery.

He is now sector leader for the subject area Industry and automation at NEK. He is secretary in NEK NK 65 and NK 44, which mirrors the work done by corresponding Technical Committees at Cenelec and IEC.

Background: Electrical and Automation Engineer and have also been local manager of Technical- and IT-consulting companies. Active in the founding of SEIIA 2019.

Now: Active as the operational resource in association SEIIA and project manager for several project within the SEIIA organisation.

About SEIIA: SEIIA works for a more and better Digital Technical Information Exchange in the industry. The work is both national and international in many Interoperability Networks.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Drath (1970) is one of the architects of the AutomationML data format (IEC62714) and a board member of AutomationML Society. Through his work as editor and author of several AutomationML reference books, he is well connected to the scientific community in the field of engineering, data integration, Industry 4.0 and the asset administration shell. 

In his talk, he will report on the big picture of the integration of various interoperability solutions with the AAS, namely the integration and interaction of AML, AASX and OPC UA. This work is currently underway and a joint effort between IDTA, OPC Foundation, VDMA, AutomationML e.V. and further industry partners. 

Dr.-Ing. Andreas Schüller (1984) received his doctorate from the Chair of Process Control Engineering at RWTH Aachen University was subsequently employed as a lead engineer for automation technology at YNCORIS GmbH & Co. KG. He is currently employed there as a Key Expert Automation Technology. His work in I&C planning focuses on digitalization, functional safety and explosion protection. In NAMUR he leads the working group 1.3 «Information Management and Tools» as well as he collaborates in the working group 1.4 «Asset Administration Shell». In IGR he leads the working group «future automation technology».

NAMUR is an international user association of automation technology and digitalization in process industries. We have been representing the interests of our members for more than 65 years.

In his talk, he shows the digitalization strategy of NAMUR consisting of the four blocks Advanced Physical Layer (APL), Module Type Package (MTP), NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA) and Asset Administration Shell (AAS).

He is Software Engineering with more than 35 years of experience in the Oil And Gas Industry. His experience owner operator where he was involved in projects for managing reservoir data, drilling data as well as production data. His main responsibility today is within Aibel with technical systems for life cycle information gathering and handover.

He will share some of the Abibel’s experience with development and operation of ontologies using RDF graph databases. He will also share some of the experience with testing of RAMI/Asset Administration Shell with client and suppliers in the NOAKA FEED project.

After 20 years as managing director for KW Software and EVP for its successor Phoenix Contact Software Andreas is now one of the dedicated senior specialists driving the development of the Asset Administration Shell. Whit his hart and competence in automation software realizing the framework for Digital Twins is the full focus and passion of Andreas. Trough the industry wide initiative Industrie 4.0 and in the IDTA (Industrial Digital Twin Association) he is one of the experts shaping the Asset Administration Shell.  Andreas also serves as a board member for IDTA.

In the IEC Working Group 24 he co-develops the corresponding standard IEC 63278 AAS and he leads the German mirror committee DKE 931.0.16.

In addition, Andreas also leads related Open Source projects in GITHUB and the Eclipse Foundation.

In the past Andreas coordinated KW Software and its successor Phoenix Contact Software development of IEC 61131 programming system and IEC 61131 runtime system, IEC 61508 SIL 3 programming system and IEC 61508 SIL 3 runtime system as well as the PROFINET configuration and PROFINET runtime stack.

The presentation will focus on a specific use case to exemplify the function of Asset Administration Shell (AAS) as the framework for Digital Twins (IEC 63278). An AAS sub-model for product change notifications based on SmartPCN (VDMA 24903) is explained.

With this sub-model in combination with OPC 10000-100 (OPC UA Part 100: Devices) which defines a standardized software update model multiple vendors can provide their device and update information in a standardized way allowing for vendor independent device and update management.

As a part of the presentation the AAS V3 data model and the V3 REST API are explained. This includes vendor neutral authentication and authorization. Both theory and live demo are covered.

Sten Grüner is Principal Scientist for Industrial Digitalization Technologies at ABB Corporate Research Center Germany. His research focuses on software architecture for industrial automation systems and information modeling with OPC UA and Industry 4.0 Asset Administration Shell (AAS). Sten is actively participating in Industry 4.0 standardization activities within Plattform Industrie 4.0, ZVEI and IDTA.

In his talk Sten will give an overview of two recent developments around AAS which took place in 2022. The first topic is the activity of German association of electrotechnical industry (ZVEI) to model and exchange Product Carbon Footprint information with help of AAS. The second topic is the results of IDTA working group to establish a link between DEXPI (a data exchange standard for P&I Diagrams) and AAS.

Mario Hoernicke (1984) is Senior Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Center Germany. He is one of the inventers of the Module Type Package (MTP) and strongly involved the MTP standardization activities. His main research interest is in new and innovative Automation Engineering methods and tools.

In his talk, he will give an insight into the current developments and status of the MTP, as well as its application in industrial pilots and further developments for the usage of MTP for the engineering of world-scale plants.

David Cameron, PhD, FIChemE, is the manager for External Engagements at the dScience Centre at the University of Oslo and leads digital twin projects in the SIRIUS Centre at the same place.

He is a Chemical Engineer with 30 years of industrial experience in the metals, chemicals and petroleum industries. His technical specialization is the application of simulation to the optimization of operations. He has worked in applied research, strategy and development management roles in BHP Billiton, Norsk Hydro, Kongsberg Group and then in consulting and senior business development roles related to the internet of things in IBM and Sopra Steria.

He earned his doctorate in simulator-based process analytics from the University of Cambridge.