We show how interoperability, sustainability and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing automation using concrete examples from current publicly funded (national and international) research projects with partners from industry and academia.

• Interoperability: Interoperability is the basis for the metaverse and digital twins. We rely on proven standards such as AAS, AutomationML, FMI, and OPC UA to ensure seamless collaboration between systems and are actively involved in their development.
• Sustainability: Our solutions not only promote transparency in consumption and emissions, but are also aimed at saving resources and innovative production concepts, including closed-loop concepts. These concepts are optimally supported by digital technologies.
• Artificial intelligence: AI plays a central role in automation. We use rule-based systems, machine learning methods and large language models to simplify processes in engineering, during virtual commissioning, and parallel to operation of production plants and make them more efficient.

Visit us to see how these technologies work together to shape the future of automation.

(Remark: Visualization generated by OpenAI's DALL-E, guided by prompts in ChatGPT, and post-processed manually.)