Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a network node point connecting a plurality of devices in a communication network receiving and forwarding data packets. An example includes: a memory unit to buffer data packets after reception; a connection to a neural network using artificial intelligence (AI) to capture, analyze, transform, and/or process data packets or associated metadata; and a processor to using the AI to analyze data packets. The data packets are buffered, analyzed, processed and/or transformed in the network node point before being forwarded.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a verification unit. An example includes: a capture unit to capture an authentication and key agreement protocol sequence; a generation unit to derive data associated with the sequence from the sequence by including a notarization guideline; and an authentication unit to protect the integrity of the data by forming integrity-protected data. The authentication unit comprises a signature unit to deliver the integrity-protected data in signed form using: a post-quantum secure signature method or a post-quantum secure key encapsulation mechanism or a classical cryptographic digital signature method. The system includes a delivery unit to deliver the integrity-protected data.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include workflow execution methods. An example includes: obtaining a workflow and configuration information, wherein the workflow is generated based on a behavior tree construction operation performed by a user on a graphical user interface; configuring an auxiliary process adapted to provide a resource for the workflow based on the configuration information, wherein the auxiliary process is adapted to host a long connection with the resource; and generating a function block process adapted to execute a function block in the workflow, wherein the function block process is adapted to host a first idempotent short connection with the auxiliary process and/or a second idempotent short connection with the resource, and the auxiliary process is decoupled from the function block process.

Abstract: An assembly includes a substrate with a metallization having a first conductor structure and a second conductor structure, with the first conductor structure being arranged at least partially within the second conductor structure. An electronic component is connected to the first conductor structure. A thermally conductive housing element is designed to surround the electronic component and connected with a material bond to the second conductor structure. A thermally conductive filler material connects a cover surface and a side surface of the electronic component to the housing element.

Abstract: A circuit assembly includes a circuit carrier, a lead frame electrically connected to the circuit carrier, and a semiconductor component disposed between the circuit carrier and the lead frame and embodied as transistor including a control terminal connected to a first contact pad of the circuit carrier, a first load terminal connected to a second contact pad of the circuit carrier, and a second load terminal connected to the lead frame by bonding material. The control terminal and the first load terminal face the circuit carrier. The second load terminal faces the lead frame. A cooling body is disposed on a side of the lead frame facing away from the semiconductor component. An electrically insulating insulation element is disposed between the lead frame and the cooling body. A pressing unit presses the circuit carrier, the semiconductor component, the lead frame, the insulation element and the cooling body against one another.

Abstract: A safety system of a mobile component of an industrial automation plant and method for adjusting failsafe monitoring in the industrial automation plant, wherein a sensor of a mobile component of the industrial automation plant is used to determine a position and orientation of the mobile component relative to a further component of the industrial automation plant in a failsafe manner, a communicative and failsafe coupling is set up between the mobile component and the further component, and successful coupling results in a monitoring region of the mobile component are adjusted, where a monitoring region of the further component is also possibly adjusted.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a configuration for external datapoint access is provided, whereby the configuration includes at least one datapoint within an automation system, including: a) searching for and capturing at least one input and/or output field; b) extracting annotation data near to a visualized automation process value in a found I/O-field and surrounding the I/O-field; c) attributing extracted annotation data to at least one datapoint within the automation system; d) providing a data scheme built with via edges linked components representing elements of the user interface surface; e) querying a search through the data scheme for one or more visualized pre-selected automation process values and f) generating a configuration with at least one datapoint along with linked supplemental information as a result from the search; and g) outputting the configuration in an automation system readable and/or computer-readable format.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric rotary machine includes a stator with a stator winding and a rotor. The rotor includes an at least substantially cylindrical recess for receiving a shaft. The rotor includes a first material and a second material, wherein a region of the rotor in which a d-axis flux path of a magnetic flux lies is formed of the first material. The flux path caused by a magnetic stator field that can be generated by the stator winding, wherein a region of the rotor in which a q-axis flux path of the magnetic flux lies is formed of the second material.

Abstract: A clamping body formed from an integral sheet-metal punched part by bending processes, wherein the sheet-metal punched part has a central portion, upon which a spring arm portion is arranged on a first side and a contact-pressure surface portion on a second side, and, starting from the central portion, the spring arm portion is divided into a first part and an adjoining second part with a free end, where the first part is bent upwards, the second part is bent downwards and the contact-pressure surface portion is bent upwards, where the central portion lies opposite the opening, the downwardly bent second part forms a guide surface for the plug-in part to be plugged in within an opening, the first part exerts a spring force in the direction of the contact-pressure surface portion, so that a plug-in part plugged in via the guide surface is secured.

Abstract: A control system for a technical installation, particularly a process or manufacturing facility, includes a computer-implemented registration service that is configured to receive a certificate request from a component of the technical installation that comprises information regarding the identity of the installation component, configured to extract from a first memory information about which certificates of the installation component have already been assigned, can be assigned or are to be assigned, using the information regarding the identity of the installation component and the information about certificates that can be assigned or are to be assigned, configured to determine what the certificate request type is and which registration authority or certification authority of the technical installation is responsible for the certificate request, and is configured to transfer the certificate request of the installation component with information about the type of certificate request to the responsible registr

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for controlling energy exchanges between a plurality of energy systems via an electricity grid using a central control apparatus. An example includes: transmitting a respective value for a maximum amount of energy from each of the energy systems available for a defined time range to the central control apparatus; using a target function and the values transmitted from the plurality of energy systems to ascertain powers associated with the energy exchanges within a defined time range using an optimization method, wherein at least one of the energy systems comprises an installation that can be curtailed with respect to its power; transmitting a curtailment factor for the at least one curtailable energy system to the control apparatus; ascertaining the energy exchanges, using a condition represented by: ?Ei*;max??t?TPi*;t?tt?Ei*;max; and controlling the energy exchanges within the time range according to the ascertained powers.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include systems for automatically transforming economic, organizational, and/or industrial content and/or processes capturable by natural language into a digital representation. An example includes: modules for capturing and/or recording user-specific data; processors to process captured data for forwarding to an AI and create digital representations in a recording language; an interface to a second processor associated with a neural network having an AI trained to carry out pattern analysis, pattern recognition, and/or pattern prediction on the basis of the processed user-specific recording data; and a second interface to transmit results from the data editing of the AI to the first processor to generate a digital representation made available to the user via a display module.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a discharge module. An example includes: a discharge resistor; a normally-closed switch; and a normally-open switch connected in parallel to the normally-closed switch. The normally-open switch and the normally-closed switch are collectively in series with the discharge resistor.

Abstract: Methods for implementing an automation system (152) and corresponding systems (100) and computer-readable mediums (126). A method includes starting (602) a system orchestrator (168) and reading (604) a system configuration definition (156) and system manifest (158). The method includes reading (606) app configuration definitions (156) and app manifests (158) for one or more apps (154) based on the system configuration definition (156). The method includes defining (610) app configuration definitions (156) for one or more apps (154) based on the system configuration definition (156) and executing (614) the one or more apps (154) based on the app configuration definitions (156) and the app manifests (158). The method includes controlling (618) at least one external physical device (570) based on the one or more executing apps (154).

Abstract: A device inspects and/or monitors phase currents in a power electronics device that has at least two power semiconductor modules that are connected in parallel on the phases. The device comprises at least two current detection devices, at least two conversion units, and an evaluation apparatus. Each current detection device is designed to detect a partial current at each power semiconductor module and output an analogue signal corresponding to the detected partial current. A sum of the detected partial currents gives the current in the phase. Each conversion unit is connected downstream of a respective current detection device and is designed to convert the analogue signal into a digital signal. The evaluation apparatus is connected downstream of the at least two conversion units and designed and configured to generate, based on the digital signals, an output signal which contains control-relevant and/or diagnostics-relevant information about the current in the phase.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for a security test of a device with a data connection. An example includes: carrying out an IT security test of the device; acquiring a data feedback of the device using the data connection throughout the IT security test; acquiring a device status of the device optically and/or acoustically; and evaluating the data feedback in light of the acquired device status.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include additively produced magnetic sheet for a laminated core of an electric machine. An example includes: a first material component arranged in a radially inner area of the magnetic sheet; a second material component arranged in a radially outer area; and a transition area between the radially inner area and the radially outer area, wherein the transition area includes both the first material component and the second material component in discrete sub-areas. The discrete sub-areas are arranged in a row in the radial direction such that a line following a radius cuts at least two discrete sub-areas.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for training a neural policy network for a central controller that controls the motion of conveyor belt drives, wherein the neural policy network generates an output action vector including an action to be performed on parameters related to the motion setpoints of the conveyor belt drives based on an input state vector including at least one state of on an incoming train of pieces. An example includes: enacting a plurality of training episodes; enacting several iteration cycles; and, between at least some of the training episodes: determining a success indicator for the training procedure, and performing an automated adaptation of the training parameters, triggered by a certain value of the obtained success indicator.

Abstract: A method, including: analyzing transaction logs of the cloud computing system within a predefined period of time to derive various transaction types with pre-defined behavioral and time attributes of the logged operations of transaction; forming at least one transaction class by clustering the derived transaction types with similar values of the behavioral and/or time attributes into the same transaction class; correlating predefined resource consumption data and/or idle time data with at least one transaction class; verifying that user related technical quality of one or more such operations of transaction is in a predetermined acceptable tolerance range; providing configuration data containing the at least one transaction class with the correlated resource consumption data and/or idle time data for the cloud computing system, if the verified user related technical quality is in the predetermined acceptable tolerance range, otherwise predefined resource consumption data and/or idle time data need to be redef