As part of the Communications Engineering lectures, there is the opportunity for you to participate in an online guest lecture by Prof. Alois Zoitl from the JKU's Cyber-Physical Systems Lab on December 2nd, 2020 at 1:45 pm.

The topic of the lecture is distributed architectures in production automation; see the following abstract.

Date: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

Time: 1:45 p.m.

Zoom link: https://jku.zoom.us/j/95939631831 , opens an external URL in a new window

Abstract: Manufacturing companies face major challenges as product life cycles are shortening, product variability increases, and global markets are becoming increasingly volatile. In order to remain competitive, the production plants and facilities must be adaptable in order to be able to react quickly and efficiently to these changes. The control and automation infrastructure is a key success factor in achieving these goals. New distributed architectures are one possible approach to addressing these requirements. New interaction and communication patterns are required as well as new ways of programming the automation systems consisting of networked control units (mostly CPS).