Autor: Thomas Bauernhansl

With digitization, industrial production is already undergoing massive changes. However, the mere introduction of Cyber-Physical systems is not sufficient to address essential challenges of society and companies. This can only be achieved through a systematic application of knowledge about natural processes or nature for the purpose of optimizing industrial manufacturing processes. The result of this biological transformation of industrial value creation is the realization of socalled biointelligent systems.

Due to the rapid development in information technologies, the amount of information production staff has to deal with rises. Additionally, the requirements for the changeability and flexibility of control systems are growing. This leads to a constantly growing complexity in the handling of information. By avoiding unnecessary information logistics processes, this complexity is reduced and information management becomes easier.