Smart Agents for the Industry 4.0

Dr.-Ing. Max Hoffmann is a scientific researcher at the Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and leads the group “Industrial Big Data”. His research emphasizes on production optimization by means of data integration through interoperability and communication standards for industrial manufacturing and integrated analysis by using Machine Learning and stream-based information processing.

• Agent OPC UA – Semantic Scalability and Interoperability Architecture for MAS through OPC UA.- Management System Integration of OPC UA Based MAS.- Flexible Manufacturing Based on Autonomous, Decentralized Systems.- Use Cases for Industrial Automation.