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OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers

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Abstract

This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed “Digital Engineer” skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as “Digital Innovator”). In the Internet of Things era, this profile implies the ability to perform both digital design and engineering activities, to semantically bridge multiple layers of abstraction and specificity – from business analysis down to cyber-physical engineering. In the paper’s proposal, this integration is enabled by conceptual modelling methods and interoperable modelling tools, tailored to support the creation of Digital Twins for innovative digital business models. The architecture of the proposed environment is guided by a Design Research perspective – i.e., it is a treatment to an education “design problem” regarding the Digital Engineer skill profile in the IoT era. The proposed environment encompasses workspaces and toolkits are currently evaluated in “innovation corners” deployed across the OMiLAB ecosystem.

Keywords

  • OMiLAB
  • Digital Twin
  • Digital Engineer
  • Digital Innovator
  • Agile Modelling Method Engineering
  • Cyber-Physical systems

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The proposed innovation environment is used by academic as well as industrial partners in the ERASMUS+ KA2 project no. 601089-EPP-1-2018-1-RO-EPPKA2-KA (https://www.digifof.eu/).

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  1. Research Group Knowledge Engineering, University of Vienna, Wahringerstr. 29, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Dimitris Karagiannis

  2. Business Informatics Research Center, University Babeș-Bolyai, Str. T. Mihali 58-60, 400591, Cluj Napoca, Romania

    Robert Andrei Buchmann

  3. Mines Saint-Etienne, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6158 LIMOS-Institut Fayol, 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023, Saint-Etienne, France

    Xavier Boucher

  4. CELS Research Group, University of Bergamo, Viale G. Marconi 5, 24044, Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

    Sergio Cavalieri

  5. Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Str. E. Cioran 4, Sibiu, 550025, Romania

    Adrian Florea

  6. ICT4SM Group, SCI-STI-DK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Station 9, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dimitris Kiritsis

  7. OMiLAB KOREA Research Center, Chonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, 54896, South Korea

    Moonkun Lee

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Karagiannis, D. et al. (2020). OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Ortiz, A. (eds) Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0. PRO-VE 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62412-5_23

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