Keynote Lectures
Johan Åkerberg
Global Research Area Coordinator - Embedded & Electronics
ABB AB, Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden
Biodata: Johan Åkerberg is a principal scientist and global research area coordinator for embedded systems and electronics at ABB Corporate Research in Sweden.
Johan Åkerberg received his MSc and PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Mälardalen University, Sweden. He is also an active IEEE senior member organizing special sessions, holding tutorials and acting as TCP member in various distinguished IES conferences.
He is mainly working with communication for embedded real-time systems in industrial automation and is frequently invited to give talks to governmental bodies, international universities and automation fairs. He has close to 20 years experience within ABB in various positions such as R&D project manager, industrial communication specialist and product manager.
Dr. Åkerberg holds more than 10 patents (granted and pending applications) in the area of wired/wireless industrial automation, and is author or co-author of numerous scientific publications in refereed conferences and journals.
Title: «Towards Securing Distributed and Critical Infrastructure»
Summary: Industrial automation and power transmission has a long history of operation and one of the key concerns is safe operation. In the last decade security has gained more attention in these areas, still challenges remain towards securing distributed and critical infrastructures. This talk will provide more insight in distributed systems used in automation and in power distribution. Specific security challenges compared to the IT domain arise as the systems have different design goals and are operated and maintained differently. As an example an industrial process can have thousands of embedded systems that co-operate with real-time constraints where availability and safety are the main concerns.
Furthermore, some existing and emerging security challenges will be addressed in the talk.
Download Dr. Åkerberg Keynote Lecture in PDFJürgen Jasperneite
Director - Fraunhofer Application Center Industrial Automation (IOSB-INA)
Lemgo, Germany
Biodata: Juergen Jasperneite, born in 1964, studied electrical engineering and received his doctorate degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany, in 2002.
His professional career included various engineering and management positions. From 1988 - 1989 he was with Bosch Telecom, Berlin, as a R&D-Engineer in the field of GSM technology. From 1989 to 2005 he was with Phoenix Contact, Germany, in different positions, starting as an ASIC-Developer for industrial communication systems and finally as the Head of the R&D-Department of the Business Unit Automation Systems.
Since 2005 he is a full professor for Computer Networks at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. From the end of 2006 he is the speaker of the "Industrial IT"-Center of excellence funded by the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia. Since the beginning of 2007 he becomes the founding director of the Institute for Industrial Information Technologies (inIT - Institute Industrial IT). Since 2009 he is director of the new founded Fraunhofer Application Center Industrial Automation (IOSB-INA) in Lemgo.
Juergen Jasperneite is an IEEE Senior Member since 2006 and Author/Co-Author of more than 100 technical papers. He served as a member or reviewer for a lot of scientific conferences and journals. Currently he is vice chair of the IEEE IES Technical Commitee "Factory Automation".
In 2008 he received the Research Award of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University.
Professor Jasperneite is one of the initiators of the Centrum Industrial IT (www.ciit-owl.de), which is Germany’s first science-to-business center in the field of industrial automation.
His current research interest include distributed real-time systems, especially in the domain of industrial automation systems.
Professor Jasperneite is board member of the internationale Graduate School "Intelligent Systems in Automation Technology (ISA)", a joint scientific institution of the inIT and the University of Paderborn.
Title: «Towards the Smart Factory - Status and open issues»
Summary: Manufacturing companies follow the trend towards mass customization and must operate in an increasingly turbulent environment. The variety of factors that influence the production technology, such as fluctuating demand and commodity prices, high product complexity, high cost pressures and short product life cycles, can not be fully thought ahead at the time of the construction of a machine or plant. Additionally there is an increasing environmental awareness in major importing countries of mechanical and plant engineering.
As a consequence future production systems must be characterized by high adaptability, resource-efficiency and user friendliness. Such a smart factory considers all components of a production system: the product, the resources, the people in the factory as well as customers and suppliers. For a smart factory the usage of Information and Communication technologies and intelligent automation is of high importance. This talk shows how the needed intelligence comes into the technical systems at the factory floor. Some examples of the leading edge technology cluster "intelligent technical systems OstWestfalen-Lippe it’s OWL" are introduced. In this cluster, which is an integral part of germans high-tech strategy, 178 partners from research and industry are working on solutions for the smart factory and smart products. Based on real-world industrial applications methods and technologies for the self-configuration and self-optimization of machines and systems are presented. Last but not least still open issues are identified where further research and development effort is needed.
Michael Paulitsch
Senior Expert - Airbus Group
Munich, Germany
Biodata: Michael Paulitsch is Scientific Director at EADS Innovation in the Electronic, Communication and Intelligent Systems Department based in Munich, Germany. His work focuses on dependable embedded and secure embedded computing and networks. Before he worked at Honeywell Aerospace in the U.S. on software and electronic platforms in the area of business, regional, air transport, and human space avionics and engine control electronics. He was a key contributor to the avionics electronic architecture of Orion, NASA's next generation human space vehicle.
Michael Paulitsch published multiple scientific papers in his area of expertise, participates in internal scientific conference committees and holds multiple patents. He holds a PhD in technical sciences from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria with emphasis on dependable embedded systems and a doctoral degree in economics and social science with emphasis on production aspects.
Title: «Dependable and Secure Computing and Networks in Aerospace»
Summary: Aerospace has a long history of dependable system design and architectures and an emerging awareness of product security. Together with the need for integration to save weight it is a challenging environment to work in. This talk will provide some insights into avionics architectures of planes and space vehicles and some design rationales. Also the talk will address the emerging topics of certification of multicore processors and security of avionics in an era of connected aircrafts for maintenance purposes and air traffic management.
