Abstract: In a method for producing a housing of an electronic module, a lead with a bondable lead surface is injection molded with a plastic in a plastic injection mold such as to leave at least a part of each bondable lead surface from being injection molded and to form the lead with a pin recess which passes through the plastic and has a lead recess in the lead and which is sealed on opposing sides by a stamp component and a matrix component of the injection molded tool when the injection molded tool is closed, with the stamp component and the matrix component being injection-molded after the injection molded tool is closed. An electrically conductive pin element is inserted into the pin recess such as to guide the pin element through the lead recess of the pin recess.

Abstract: Provided is a method for orchestrating a container-based application that is executed on a terminal device, in which implementation information is received in an orchestration slave unit on the terminal device via a communication connection from an orchestration master unit, and the application is configured and/or controlled by the orchestration slave unit based on the implementation information, wherein the received implementation information is additionally saved persistently in a memory unit in the terminal device, and if the communication connection to the orchestration master unit is interrupted, the most recently saved implementation information is retrieved from the orchestration slave unit and the application is configured and/or controlled based on the most recently saved implementation information.

Abstract: A method for handling security alarms by a control system of a technical installation includes a) receiving diagnostic messages that have been generated by technical objects (7) of a technical installation; b) analyzing the diagnostic messages such that diagnostic messages relevant to the security of an operation of the technical installation are identified by means of comparative data records, where a machine learning network is used to analyze the diagnostic messages to assess the security relevance of the diagnostic messages, where the network is previously trained using special inputs from operators of the technical installation that have assessed past diagnostic messages with regard to their security relevance; c) if necessary, adapting the previously identified diagnostic messages to requirements of a computer-implemented security module of the technical installation and d) transmitting the previously identified and optionally adapted diagnostic messages to the computer-implemented security module of th

Abstract: A gas analyzer includes a self-contained pressure module that at least partly encloses a tube for a gas, wherein a pressure module is equipped with a sensor and a valve, the sensor and the valve are operable through a master control circuit that is accommodated in a self-contained control enclosure outside of the pressure module, separate from the valve and the sensor.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for scheme recommendation. An example includes: obtaining a technical request for a factory production, with a candidate and job recommendation request for a production task, a technical scheme request for a type of work and specific requirement, or a technical expert and solution request for a technical problem; performing analysis and feature extraction on the request and obtaining corresponding current request description information; according to the information, adopting a neural network algorithm for deep learning using historical searching cases in a case database to obtain a searching algorithm from multiple algorithms using case-based reasoning; and obtaining corresponding recommendation scheme after an information database established with industrial technology information, technical characteristics information of workers, and technical expertise information of engineering experts is searched by the at least one searching algorithm.

Abstract: A computing system that includes a neural network can receive a statement written in natural language text. The neural network can determine an operation intended by the statement. Based on the operation, the computing system can determine one or more parameters that correspond to the operation. Based on the operation, the computing system can identify a template in a target domain-specific language. Further, the computing system can populate the template with the operation and the one or more parameters. so as to automatically generate source code in the target domain-specific language, from the statement written in natural language text.

Abstract: A real-time computer system for automated acoustic anomaly detection in a programmable logic controller (PLC) is disclosed, the computer system being deployed onto a backplane of the PLC. The computer system includes at least one processor with a real-time operating system and a memory having algorithmic modules stored thereon executable by the processor. The modules include a digital signal processing module configured to apply a windowing function to the sound signal data captured by a sensor, the sound signal data representative of sound emitted by an energized work product under quality inspection. The modules further include a feature extraction component configured to extract acoustic features from each sound window, and an anomaly detector module configured to operate a machine learning-based model to execute acoustic anomaly detection according to results of a classification operation on the acoustic features.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for optimizing operation of a transformer substation with transformers connected or disconnected by switches. The method may include: acquiring a current load of each transformer, and predicting loads for each in various operating modes in some time periods based on current loads; calculating transformer costs for each time period based on predicted loads including transformer losses and operation costs; calculating switch costs based on purchase cost and service life for a switch corresponding to each transformer; and calculating a total cost in a total time period using the transformer costs and the switch costs, optimizing the total cost to obtain optimization parameters, and operating the transformer substation according to the optimization parameters, the total time period consisting of the plurality of time periods.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings include a method for subscription-based IoT communication security. An example method includes: receiving a subscription request for a service of an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) device from an edge device; generating a master key and key parameters for the subscription request; deploying the key parameters to the IIoT device; generating a private key with constraint based on the master key, the key parameters, Identifier (ID) information of the IIoT device, and a usage constraint parameter for subscription range, and sending the private key with constraint to the edge device; encrypting, at the device, a message based on the key parameters, the ID information of the device, and a current usage parameter, and sending an encrypted message to the edge device; and decrypting it using the private key with constraint when the current usage parameter of the message is valid for the usage constraint parameter.

Abstract: An assistance system for assisting the planning of automation systems includes a configuration database that has configuration datasets of automation systems, where a respective configuration dataset in each case has the configuration data of a predefined automation system, includes a vectorization component for structuring and adjusting configuration datasets, where the vectorization component is configured to convert the configuration datasets of the configuration database into vectorized configuration datasets, and includes an AI component for processing the vectorized configuration datasets using artificial intelligence, where the processing of the vectorized configuration datasets by the artificial intelligence (AI) component entails utilization of a neural network that has a deep learning architecture.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and a technical system for generating triples including providing a plurality of log entries from respective log files, wherein each log entry of the plurality of log entries includes at least one text message, generating at least one template based on the plurality of log entries using unsupervised clustering, wherein the at least one template includes at least one variable part and at least one fixed part, assigning each log entry of the plurality of log entries to one respective template based on the generated at least one template using a similarity measure, extracting the corresponding at least one variable and at least one fixed part of each text message of the plurality of text messages as key/value pairs using the respective assigned at least one template based on the plurality of log entries, and providing the text messages, keys and values as triples.

Abstract: A method of communicating between a first radio unit and a first distributed unit of an operational wireless network in an industrial facility is disclosed. The method includes: providing a dedicated wireless subnetwork associated with the first radio unit; receiving at least one data packet from a user device, wherein the at least one data packet is associated with a first user plane or a first control plane with the operational wireless network; and transmitting the at least one data packet to the first distributed unit via a second user plane of the dedicated wireless subnetwork. The dedicated wireless subnetwork includes a dedicated user device connected to the first radio unit and a dedicated base station including a dedicated radio unit connected to the dedicated user device. The configuration of the second user plane is distinct from the configuration of the first user plane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for data analytics in a network between one or more local device(s) (130) and a cloud computing platform (120), in which data collected and/or stored on the local device(s) (130) and/or stored on the cloud computing platform (120) are processed by an analytical algorithm (A) which is subdivided into at least two sub-algorithms (SA1, SA2), wherein one sub-algorithm (SA1) is executed on the local device(s) (130) and the other sub-algorithm (SA2) is executed on the cloud computing platform (120).

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a powder coating or wet enamel for production of an insulation system of an electrical machine including a curable resin-resin or resin-hardener mixture in solid form as a powder coating formulation at room temperature or processed in a solvent to give a wet enamel. The mixture may include: a first hydrocarbon-based resin component with at least two epoxy groups; a second silicon-oxygen-based resin component with at least one hydroxyl functionality; and a hardener and/or an initiating catalyst. The first resin component is predominant by composition.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for controlling a combustion device comprising a first combustion sensor and a second sensor. An example includes: specifying a first setpoint value for the first sensor for a first fuel; controlling the combustion device to the first setpoint value; recording a first value of the signal from the first combustion sensor and a second value of the signal from the second sensor; determining a second fuel as a function of the first signal and the second signal; comparing a composition of the first fuel to a composition of the second fuel; and, if the second fuel is of a different composition from the first fuel, determining a second setpoint value for the signal from the first combustion sensor as a function of the second fuel and adjusting the combustion device using the first combustion sensor to the second setpoint value for the signal from the first combustion sensor; else making no further adjustment.

Abstract: A computing facility transmits a command to a numerical control to briefly actuate a spindle drive, receives from the numerical control a drive torque applied to the spindle drive and data about a resulting acceleration of the spindle and determines therefrom a moment of inertia of the spindle and the spindle drive. The computing facility retrieves from the converter parameters describing the maximum possible operating limits of the converter and motor data of the drive motor, from which the maximum possible torque of the spindle drive can be determined as a function of the speed of the drive motor. The computing facility receives from an operator process data which include at least the process torque and determines required currents and torques and thermal losses in the spindle drive. The operator selects from the determined combinations, on the basis of which the limit values below a predetermined loss limit are determined.

Abstract: In a method for dimensioning a receiving device for use in an industrial process, control of the industrial process is simulated by a virtual controller. A dynamic control variable based on the simulation of the virtual controller is outputted and a dynamic process variable is determined based on the dynamic control variables. The receiving device is dimensioned by taking into account the determined dynamic process variable.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a switching control method for a three-level flying-capacitor converter. An example method includes sending constant HIGH drive signals to two middle power switches when an input voltage of the converter is lower than a predetermined proportion of a maximum input voltage value. The three-level flying-capacitor converter comprises an input capacitor, a first discharge resistor, a flying capacitor, four power switches, four diodes, an output inductor, and an output capacitor. The two middle power switches consist of the second power switch and the third power switch. The flying capacitor is connected in parallel with the two middle power switches. The HIGH drive signals cause the two middle power switches to be continuously switched on and thereby cause the flying capacitor to be short-circuited.

Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program manage a single sign on (SSO) session by an identity provider for a plurality of services. The method includes managing, by an identity provider, information on the SSO session via a cookie based protocol, and persisting a list of services of relying parties participating in same SSO session information in one session cookie and a plurality of temporary state cookies with randomly generated names. Whereby the list of session services are represented with a bit mask representation within the cookies and, whereby the plurality of temporary state cookies can be consolidated into one state cookie.

Abstract: A method for transmitting time-critical data, in which datagrams are transmitted from a first communication device in a first sub-network to a second communication device in a second sub-network via a third sub-network, wherein datagrams within the first and the second sub-networks are each forwarded by switching, while diagrams within the third sub-network are transmitted by routing, where the first sub-network includes at least a first coupling communication device connected to a first router and a second coupling communication device connected to a second router, where the first and second coupling communication devices select among each other a master coupling communication device, where a common virtual network layer address is assigned to both coupling communication devices, and where a securing layer tunnel is built up by the third sub-network between the master coupling communication device and a third coupling communication device.