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Subscribe now to the latest news about the FIR, the Cluster Smart Logistics and the associated centers on the RWTH Aachen Campus with the FIR-Flash! anmeldung.fir.de Your opinion is needed! On behalf of the research advisory board of Acatech's "Platform Industry 4.0", the FIR is currently conducting a study on the development, use and monetization of an industrial database. The aim is to identify measures that contribute to thebetter useandmonetizationof data in industrial companies. Your participation in the approx. 20-minute survey will help us to put the results on an even broader basis.As a thank you for your participation, you will receive an exclusive analysis of the study results by winter 2021, which will go beyond the publication in the guide. We would appreciate your participation by September 30. Take Part in the Survey Now: How Does IT Support Production Planning and Production Control? With the PPS survey, we want to gain an insight into the everyday lifeof productionplanners andcontrollers. The results are intended to create transparency about the lived tasks and responsibilities and to identify opportunities for better decision support by IT systems. The results are intended to create transparency about the tasks and responsibilities that are lived andtoidentifyopportunitiesforbetterdecisionsupportthrough IT systems. You are welcome to provide your email address at the end of the survey to receive the results of the study. Consortium meeting has taken Place successfully The first consortium meeting within the research project ‘KI-LIAS – Artificial Intelligence for Learning Supportive Industrial Assistance Systems’ was successfully held on 8 July 2021. With respect to the ongoing Corona situation the partners from industry and research came together in the digital space. Representatives of the companies and research institutions reported and discussed the results of the last months. Since the start of the project, these have been jointly developed in over 40 workshops with more than 30 participants from 24 different roles. As a result, the project has already identified 22 use cases for AI applications at the partner companies. The project meeting was also complemented by an exciting keynote speech on the topic of “ Change Management in Digital Transformation ” (speaker Roman Senderek, FIR ) as well as three workshops on the topics of “ Acceptance ” , “ Potential Analysis ” , and “ Competencies & Qualifications ” . Great thanks go to all partner companies and participants for the good cooperation in the last months. The FIR is looking forward to the next common steps within the project. Research Project ‘BlueSAM’ Launched In the research project ‘BlueSAM’, which started on 01.05.2021, the FIR together with the Belgian partner Sirris examines existing IT architectures for the realization of intelligent products inorder to transfer them intoa referencearchitecture.