Simon Bergweiler

Research Unit: Innovative Factory Systems

Research Area: Interconnected Factory Architectures

Simon Bergweiler received a diploma in applied computer science at Trier University of Applied Sciences in 2004. Since then he is researcher and software engineer at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He has worked on Discourse Modelling, Multimodal Interfaces and
Dialog Systems, but his main research interests include Interconnected Factory Systems and Human Machine Interaction Technologies for Future Factories (Industrie 4.0), distributed manufacturing via Cyber Physical Production Modules, flexible Web service integration by Semantic Web Services, and knowledge
management based on Semantic Technologies. Furthermore he is responsible for the development and systems integration based on various service-oriented middleware products in international research projects and industrial projects.

In addition, he leads the research area to explore Interconnected Factory Architectures (IFA) in the DFKI research unit of Innovative Factory Systems (IFS). The aim is to provide optimum human support in the smart production environment of the factory of the future. We must therefore bear in mind that the success of the
factory of the future depends on the interaction between man and machine. As the most flexible element of the value chain, people play a central role. To integrate people into this new working world, we need innovative business and communication processes. The machines and their interfaces, such as user interfaces, need to be adapted more to the needs of people in order to support them more effectively in their daily work. This requires intelligent assistance systems that cooperate with humans.

In the field of Interconnected Factory Systems and Smart Human Machine Interaction we are working on the further development of the following topics:

  • Knowledge management in the production environment as well as
    intelligent and adaptive process design (workflow management)
  • Context-sensitive user interfaces and Digital Twins (models and ontologies)
  • Edge-Cloud Technologies
  • Scalable Software Systems and containerized services
  • Multi Agent Systems – Production bots for the production level 4
  • Use and combination of innovative technologies and equipment in
    the production environment (Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality,
    Machine Learning, Chatbot and spoken dialogue systems

Address

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH
Trippstadter Str. 122, Room 1.37
D-67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Telephone: +49 631 – 2 05 75 50 70

Research Projects

  • TWIN4TRUCKS is a project funded by the Federal Minstry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action to strengthen vehicle manufacturers and component suppliers for the future. TWIN4TRUCKS is using Digital TWINS, Artificial Intelligence, and innovative locating technologies in order to respond to the growing complexity of the manufacturing process for commercial vehicles. (started 2022, ongoing)
  • EASY – Energy-efficient analysis and control processes in the dynamic edge-cloud continuum for industrial manufacturing is a project funded by the Federal Minstry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action as part of the Edge Data Economy program.
    Edge computing enables data-sovereign, near-real-time processing of data directly at the point of origin for the production organization according to the Industry 4.0 model. (started 2022, ongoing)
  • DIGITbrain is an EU innovation program to give SMEs easy access to digital twins. A Digital Twin is a computer-based application/simulation that mimics the real production line of a company and runs in parallel with the real manufacturing process.
    Using this Digital Twin, companies can rationalise the manufacturing process, make predictions
    regarding expected machine failures and can predict maintenance needs, for example. (2020 – 2023)
  • Akzent4Basys. In this project an active worker-centered shop floor interaction system for BaSys is designed and implemented to provide flexible information for the employee. (2020 – 2022)
  • CloudiFacturing Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing – The mission of CloudiFacturing is to optimize production processes and producibility using Cloud/HPC-based modelling and simulation, leveraging online factory data and advanced data analytics, thus contributing to the competitiveness and resource efficiency of manufacturing SMEs, ultimately fostering the vision of Factories 4.0 and the circular economy. (2017 – 2021)
  • CloudiFacturing will empower over 60 European organizations (many of them being manufacturing SMEs) and will support about 20 cross-national application experiments that will primarily be selected via two Open Calls. The Open Calls will be published July 2018 and July 2019.
  • CAxMan The objectives of Computer Aided Technologies for Additive Manufacturing (CAxMan) are to establish Cloud based Toolboxes, Workflows and a One Stop-Shop for CAx-technologies supporting the design, simulation and process planning for Additive Manufacturing. (2015 – 2018)
  • CloudFlow covers Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), especially. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) including pre- and post-processing, simulation of mechatronic systems (Functional Digital Mock-Up – FDMU) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) including data archival. (2013 -2017)
  • Resource Conservation by Context-Activated Machine-to-Machine Communication as enabler for Industrie 4.0, (2016 – 2017) see link in publications (study in GERMAN)
  • M2M Semantic Technologies – Inside Cyber-Physical Production Modules – Standards for the Modelling of Data of Field Devices (2014 – 2016)
  • cPAS CPS for Smart Factories – Cyber-physical Production Assistance System (2015 – 2016)
  • RES-COM – Resource Conservation by Context-Activated Machine-to-Machine Communication (M2M) (2012 – 2014)
  • SoKNOS – Service-Oriented ArchiteCtures Supporting Networks of Public Security (2007 – 2009)
  • THESEUS-Förderprogramm – Research program initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), with the goal of developing new technologies and methodologies for the Internet of Services (2009 – 2012)
  • SmartWeb – Mobile Broadband Access to the Semantic Web (2004 – 2007)
  • UMTS Doit – Postmarket monitoring and introduction of UMTS technology (2003 – 2004)

Publications

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2024
Alexander Schultheis; Benjamin Alt; Sebastian Bast; Achim Guldner; David Jilg; Darko Katic; Johannes Mundorf; Tobias Schlagenhauf; Sebastian Weber; Ralph Bergmann; Simon Bergweiler; Lars Creutz; Guido Dartmann; Lukas Malburg; Stefan Naumann; Mahdi Rezapour; Martin Ruskowski.

EASY: Energy-Efficient Analysis and Control Processes in the Dynamic Edge-Cloud Continuum for Industrial Manufacturing.

In: German Journal of Artificial Intelligence, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-024-00868-3, 2024 . Download
Simon Bergweiler; Johannes Mundorf; Martin Ruskowski; Marco Simon; Keran Sivalingam; Maximilian Spengler; Christian Vollmer.

Datenraum Industrie 4.0 –
Tor zu einer neuen Welt der Produktion.

In: Whitepaper SmartFactory Vol. 7, No. 1, 2024 . Download
2023
Monireh Pourjafarian; Christiane Plociennik; Mohammad Hossein Rimaz; Peter Stein; Malte Vogelgesang; Chanchan Li; Svenja Knetsch; Simon Bergweiler; Martin Ruskowski.

A Multi-Stakeholder Digital Product Passport Based on the Asset Administration Shell.

In: 2023 IEEE 28th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), DOI: 10.1109/etfa54631.2023.10275715, 2023. Download
2022
Marosi, Attila Csaba and Emodi, Márk and Hajnal, Ákos and Lovas, Róbert and Kiss, Tamás and Poser, Valerie and Antony, Jibinraj and Bergweiler, Simon and Hamzeh, Hamed and Deslauriers, James and Kovács, József.

Interoperable Data Analytics Reference Architectures Empowering Digital-Twin-Aided Manufacturing.

In: mdpi journal, Future Internet , Vol. 14, No. 4, 2022. Download
Christiane Plociennik and Monireh Pourjafarian and Ali Nazeri and Waldemar Windholz and Svenja Knetsch and Julian Rickert and Andreas Ciroth and Alice do Carmo Precci Lopes and Tabea Hagedorn and Malte Vogelgesang and Wladislaw Benner and Andrea Gassmann and Simon Bergweiler and Martin Ruskowski and Liselotte Schebek and Anke Weidenkaff.

Towards a Digital Lifecycle Passport for the Circular Economy.

In: Procedia CIRP , Vol. 105, Elsevier BV, p. 122-127, 2022. Download
Simon Bergweiler and Stephan Hamm and Jesko Hermann and Christiane Plociennik and Martin Ruskowski and Achim Wagner.

Production Level 4 – Der Weg zurzukunftssicheren und verlässlichen Produktion.

In: Whitepaper-SF , Vol. 5, No. 1, 2022. Download
Valentina Zambrano and Johannes Mueller-Roemer and Michael Sandberg and Prasad Talasila and Davide Zanin and Peter Gorm Larsen and Elke Loeschner and Wolfgang Thronicke and Dario Pietraroia and Giuseppe Landolfi and Alessandro Fontana and Manuel Laspalas and Jibinraj Antony and Valerie Poser and Tamas Kiss and Simon Bergweiler and Sebastian Pena Serna and Salvador Izquierdo and Ismael Viejo and Asier Juan and Francisco Serrano and Andre Stork.

Industrial digitalization in the industry 4.0 era: Classification, reuse and authoring of digital models on Digital Twin platforms.

In: Array, Volume 14, 2022, Article 100176, DOI, ISSN 2590-0056. Download
2020
Annalisa Santolamazza and Corrado Groth and Vito Introna and Stefano Porziani and Francesco Scarpitta and Giorgio Urso and Pier Paolo Valentini and Emiliano Costa and Edoardo Ferrante and Stefano Sorrentino and Biagio Capacchione and Michel Rochette and Simon Bergweiler and Valerie Poser and Marco E. Biancolini.

A Digital Shadow Cloud-based Application to enhance Quality Control in Manufacturing.

In: 21st IFAC World Congress, Volume 53-2, Berlin, Germany, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020, pages 10579-10584. Download
Martin Ruskowski, Arnold Herget, Jesko Hermann, William Motsch, Parsha Pahlevannejad, Aleksandr Sidorenko, SmartFactory-KL; Simon Bergweiler, Alexander David, Christiane Plociennik, Jens Popper, Keran Sivalingam, Achim Wagner, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz.

Production Bots für Production Level 4. – Skill-basierte Systeme für die Produktion der ZukunftIn: atp Magazin, Band 62 Nr. 9, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.17560/atp.v62i9.2505, pages 62-71, Vulkan-Verlag GmbH. Download
2018
Jens Popper, Jesko Hermann, Simon Bergweiler, Stephan Weyer, Martin Ruskowski, at al.

IEC White Paper AI:2018 – Artificial intelligence across industries.

In: International Electrotechnical Commission – Market Strategy Board, 2018, pages 93. Download
2017
Volkan Gezer, Simon Bergweiler.

Cloud-based Infrastructure for Workflow and Service Engineering Using Semantic Web Technologies.

In: International Journal On Advances in Internet Technology vol 10 no 1&2, 2017, pp. 36-45.
TU Darmstadt (Liselotte Schebek, Jan Kannengießer, Alessio Campitelli, Julia Fischer, Eberhard Abele, Christoph Bauerdick, Reiner Anderl, Sebastian Haag), Fraunhofer IPA (Alexander Sauer, Jörg Mandel, Dominik Lucke, Ivan Bogdanov, Anne-Kathrin Nuffer, Rolf Steinhilper, Johannes Böhner, Gerald Lothes, Christoph Schock), DFKI (Detlef Zühlke, Simon Bergweiler, Christiane Plociennek).

Studie: Ressourceneffizienz durch Industrie 4.0 – Potenziale für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) des verarbeitenden Gewerbes.

In: VDI ZRE Publikationen: Studien, 2017, Download.
2016
Volkan Gezer, Simon Bergweiler.

Service and Workflow Engineering based on Semantic Web Technologies.

In: The Tenth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, (UBICOMM 2016), Venice, Italy, IARIA, ISBN 978-1-61208-505-0, 2016, pp. 152-157.
Simon Bergweiler.

Smart Factory Systems – Fostering Cloud-based Manufacturing based on Self-Monitoring Cyber-Physical Systems.

In: International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements, Volume 9 no 1 & 2, IARIA, 2016, pp. 91-101.
2015
Simon Bergweiler.

Intelligent Manufacturing based on Self-Monitoring Cyber-Physical Systems.

In: The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, (UBICOMM 2015), Nice, France, IARIA, ISBN 978-1-61208-418-3, 2015, pp. 108-113.

Best Paper Award!
Simon Bergweiler, Matthieu Deru.

Foundations of Semantic Television – Design of a Distributed and Gesture-Based Television System.

In: International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, Volume 8 no 1 & 2, IARIA, 2015, pp. 194-208.
2014
Tilman Becker, Markus Löckelt, Christian H. Schulz, Simon Bergweiler, Matthieu Deru, and Norbert Reithinger.

A unified approach for semantic-based multimodal interaction.

In: Towards the Internet of Services: The THESEUS Research Program, ser. Cognitive Technologies, W. Wahlster et al., Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 131–144.
Daniel Porta, Matthieu Deru, Simon Bergweiler, Gerd Herzog, and Peter Poller.

Building multimodal dialogue user interfaces in the context of the internet of services.

In: Towards the Internet of Services: The THESEUS Research Program, ser. Cognitive Technologies, W. Wahlster et al., Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 145–162.
Simon Bergweiler.

Interactive service composition and query.

In: Towards the Internet of Services: The THESEUS Research Program, ser. Cognitive Technologies, W. Wahlster et al., Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 163–178.
Alexander Kröner, Jens Haupert, Matthieu Deru, Simon Bergweiler, and Christian Hauck.

Enabling Data Collections for Open-Loop Applications in the Internet of Things.

In: International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, vol 7 no 1 & 2, IARIA, ISSN: 1942-2652, 2014, pp. 75-85.
Sönke Knoch, Matthieu Deru, Simon Bergweiler, and Jens Haupert.

Novel Consumer-to-Product Interactions with Context-Aware Embedded Platforms.

In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Aging and Assistive Environments. Pages 513-524, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 8515, Springer International Publishing, 2014. (HCII 2014)
Matthieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler.

Swoozy – An innovative Design of a distributed and gesture-based Semantic Television System.

In: Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2014), Rome, Italy, 2014, IARIA, ISSN: 2308-4278, pp. 131-139.

Best Paper Award!
Simon Bergweiler.

A flexible Framework for adaptive Knowledge Retrieval and Fusion for Kiosk Systems and mobile Clients.

In: Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2014), Rome, Italy, 2014, IARIA, ISSN: 2308-4278, pp. 164-171.
Jens Haupert, Simon Bergweiler, Peter Poller, and Christian Hauck.

IRAR: Smart Intention Recognition and Action Recommendation for Cyber-Physical Industry Environments.

In: 10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2014), Shanghai, China
2013
Matthieu Deru, Simon Bergweiler.

Milky: On-product App for emotional Product to Human Interactions.

In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. (MobileHCI-2013), 15th, August 27-30, Munich, Germany, ACM, 2013.
Alexander Kröner, Jens Haupert, Christian Hauck, Matthieu Deru, Simon Bergweiler.

Fostering Access to Data Collections in the Internet of Things

In: The Seventh International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies.(UBICOMM 2013), Pages 65-68, ISBN 978-1-61208-289-9, IARIA, 9/2013, Porto, Portugal

Best Paper Award!
2011
Grigori Babitski, Simon Bergweiler, Olaf Grebner, Daniel Oberle, Heiko Paulheim, Florian Probst.

SoKNOS – Using Semantic Technologies in Disaster Management Software.

In: The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-2011), 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, Pages 183-197, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 6644, ISBN 978-3-642-21033-4, Springer, 2011. download
Jochen Frey, Simon Bergweiler, Jan Alexandersson, Ehsan Gholamsaghaee, Norbert Reithinger, Christoph Stahl.

SmartCase: A Smart Home Environment in a Suitcase.

In: Intelligent Environments (IE),7th International Conference, pp.378-381, 2011.

Best Demo Award!
2010
Simon Bergweiler, Matthieu Deru, Alassane Ndiaye.

A Collaborative Touch-based Newspaper Editor Concept.

In: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS-2010), ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, November 7-10, Saarbrücken, Germany, ISBN 978-1-4503-0399-6, The Association for Computing Machinery, 2010.
Simon Bergweiler, Matthieu Deru, Daniel Porta.

Integrating a Multitouch Kiosk System with Mobile Devices and Multimodal Interaction.

In: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS-2010), November 7-10, Saarbrücken, Germany, ISBN 978-1-4503-0399-6/10/11, The Association for Computing Machinery, 2010.
2009
Daniel Sonntag, Matthieu Deru, Simon Bergweiler.

Design and Implementation of Combined Mobile and Touchscreen-Based Multimodal Web 3.0 Interfaces.

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI). International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI-09), July 13-16, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, CSREA Press, 2009.
Grigori Babitski, Simon Bergweiler, Jörg Hoffmann, Daniel Schön, Christoph Stasch, Alexander C. Walkowski.

Ontology-Based Integration of Sensor Web Services in Disaster Management.

In: GeoSpatial Semantics. International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS-09), December 3-4, Mexico City, Mexico, Pages 103-121, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 5892/2009, ISBN 978-3-642-10435-0, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 11/2009.
2006
Norbert Reithinger, Simon Bergweiler, Anselm Blocher, Ralf Engel, Gerd Herzog, Alexander Pfalzgraf, Norbert Pfleger, Massimo Romanelli, Gerhard Sonnenberg, Daniel Sonntag, Wolfgang Wahlster.

SmartWeb – Multimodal Interaction with Web Services.

In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2006). Pages 37-40, Vol. KI 2006 Demo Presentations, 6/2006.
2005
Norbert Reithinger, Simon Bergweiler, Ralf Engel, Gerd Herzog, Norbert Pfleger, Massimo Romanelli, Daniel Sonntag.

A look under the hood: design and development of the first SmartWeb system demonstrator.

In: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Multimodal interfaces. (ICMI-05) New York, Pages 159-166, ACM Press, 2005.
2004
Simon Bergweiler, and Georg J. Schneider.

Ein adaptives Multimedia-Streaming-Tool als Basis für ein personalisiertes Auskunftssystem für mobile Touristen.

Diplomarbeit (2004).

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