Software Agents for Automated Knowledge Generation in IPS
René Gegusch, K. Gestrich, G. Seliger · 2012
For a competitive (re)design, planning and usage of Industrial Product-Service System (IPS2), knowledge about the usage patterns of the customer, the IPS2 system behavior and the remaining lifetime of products is needed. The data from the operation phase is the source to discover this knowledge. With the help of software agent technology productand process data can be made locally available data which are spatially and temporally distributed along the life cycles of IPS2 in different media and formats. In a next step it will be processed with the help of data mining algorithms in an appropriate form to knowledge, as required by the application. The Virtual Life Cycle Unit (VLCU) is a concept for such an information system. It is an information technology network, which appears to humans or machines as a single unit to support the supply chain and communication processes in the complete IPS2 life cycle. In this paper the technology, data acquiring and communication concepts of the VLCU in the IPS2 life phases is being discussed and presented.