OMILAB@TU Ilmenau
"Business Innovation Management"
The focus of OMiLAB@TU Ilmenau is on model-based development, simulation, and testing of digital services to promote innovation and practical research in business informatics.
About the OMILAB Node
The Ilmenau node offers an interactive workspace for developing, visualizing, testing, and evaluating business processes for digital services. OMiLAB@TU Ilmenau supports teachers and students, particularly in business information systems engineering, in systematically modeling, simulating, and optimizing service processes for information systems. Service-oriented business models, interaction scenarios, and process chains can be digitally mapped and tested in a close to real-life cyber-physical way with robots and sensors. Digital twins of business services are developed, opening up opportunities for innovation, analysis, and evaluation. We aim to promote interdisciplinary work between computer science, engineering, and economics and support practical research on topics such as servitization, smart services, and business process management. The node builds a central component in promoting digital competence in model-based thinking, teaching, and examination, as well as innovation skills in the service industry.
Competences
- Process Modeling and Analysis
- Business Process Innovation
- Information Systems Engineering in Services
About the Hosting Organisation
The Department of Economic Sciences and Media at TU Ilmenau combines economic and social science disciplines with a strong practical focus and technological orientation. Its research focuses on the three core areas “Digital Economy and Society,” “Innovation, Sustainability, and New Technologies,” and “Philosophy of Science and Methods.” The department's degree programs—ranging from industrial engineering and business information systems engineering to media economics and applied communication science—combine technological and economic skills with analytical and creative thinking. Areas of focus include digital business models, innovation management, information systems engineering, economics, media production, and sustainable corporate management. Through practical teaching concepts, international cooperation, and close ties to industry, the department optimally prepares its students for leadership and creative tasks in an increasingly digitalized world. Hence, it stands for excellent education, application-oriented research, and forward-looking impulses for digital transformation in the economy, communication, and media. The Institute of Business Information Systems Engineering is one of five institutes within the Department of Economic Sciences and Media.
Impressions
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Results
Get an overview what this OMiLAB has accomplised! Selected results are presented below as a contribution to the global community:
All further results of the OMiLAB Node are via the organizer.
Activities
The following, selected activities are organized by the OMiLAB.
OMiLAB for Business Process Management
Execution and evaluation of computer-aided modeling tasks in a real-world context through cyber-physical transfer of digital models to hardware components (assessment of syntactic correctness and semantic accuracy)
OMiLAB for Design Thinking Challenges
Development and evaluation of ideas and concepts in the form of digital twin models (independent of location and time), which are developed in case studies by student groups in the laboratory environment (earning bonus points or as part of an exam)
Resources
The following cyber-physical resources are available at the OMILAB node:
Scene2Model
Business Layer using SAP-Scenes
Dobot Magician
Proof of Concept Layer CPS-Device
mBot
Proof of Concept Layer CPS-Device
Turtle Bot
Publications
Relevant publications of the OMILAB node: