Project description
Value creation processes today are significantly influenced by environmental factors and context-specific data. Workflows have a very high situational and contextual dependency, require temporal and spatial coordination, and are characterized by strongly data-driven control. The world of work is increasingly networked through a large number of devices, which are typically embedded in electronic components and equipped with sensors and actuators. In particular, modern Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, such as sensors and mobile devices, enable the capture of high-frequency data about the current context of involved people and objects, as well as comprehensive control and planning of processes and application environments. Mobile user interfaces can also provide support through context-related, flexible task processing and novel interaction possibilities. In the TRADEmark project, a scientifically sound integration of the two technologies IoT and process management is carried out and an IoT-supported, process-oriented method for the digitalization, automation, and planning of administrative and value creation processes is developed. The application-oriented research, implementation, and evaluation are carried out in Bavarian craft businesses. The skilled crafts sector and its value creation processes are predestined for this due to the nature of the trade. Here, many actors generally work in a distributed or mobile manner, coordinated in time and space, interlocked, and building on one another to complete a common piece of work. Context-related data, collected through IoT technology, is therefore of outstanding importance for the planning and implementation of processes.
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