About the authors
Birgit Vogel-Heuser graduated in electrical engineering and received the PhD in mechanical engineering from the RWTH Aachen. She worked for nearly ten years in industrial automation in the machine and plant manufacturing industry. After holding different chairs of automation, she has been head of the Institute of Automation and Information Systems at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2009. Her research work is focused on modeling and education in automation engineering for distributed and intelligent systems. She has been speaker of the CRC 768, and member of the coordination board of PP 1593 and 2422. She is IEEE fellow, member of acatech, and since 2021 Vice-Dean Research and Innovation of the TUM School of Engineering and Design.
Johannes Fottner studied mechanical engineering at TUM and received his PhD at the same university in materials handling, material flow, and logistics. From 2002 to 2008, he held a number of managerial positions at the Swisslog Group. In 2008, he took over as managing director of the MIAS Group. In 2016, he was appointed professor of logistics engineering at TUM. His research work focuses on several central topics of technical logistics, especially new technical solutions and systems approaches to improve logistical processes, including the control and optimization of material flow processes using innovative identification technologies (RFID), the development of logistics planning based on digital tools, and the role of humans within logistics. Fottner places a special emphasis on practical applications of scientific knowledge, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), for which the chair runs the Logistics Innovation Center (liz) and the RFID Application Center Munich (RFID-AZM) at TUM.
Professor Weyrich is head of the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. He researches and teaches in the area of industrial information technology for automation. His research interests include intelligent automation components, autonomous systems, and automation safety. He studied at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Bochum and London and received his PhD from RWTH Aachen. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Ukrainian University TUDon. Before joining the university, he worked in the multinational industry for 10 years, including 4 years in Asia. He is Chairman of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology and a member of the VDE Executive Board. He holds several positions, e.g. head of the VDI/VDE Technical Committee on testing networked systems, director of the Innovation Campus Mobility, industry chair of the International Federation of Control (IFAC) for “Computers for Control”, member of the program committee in the IEEE ETFA conferences as well as member of the editorial board of the journal ATP edition.
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