Dr. Michael Hoffmeister, Festo SE & Co. KG
* Head of working group SG Models and Standards of ZVEI association in Germany
* Member of numerous Industrie 4.0 working groups
* Convenor of the IEC TG65 WG24 working group on Asset Administration Shell
* Board member Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA)
– Diploma for computer science at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
– Free-lance developer of real-time systems
– Senior scientist and project manager at Fraunhofer-Institute IPA in Stuttgart
– Consultant for industry in large ICT projects in the domains of shopfloor automation, factory automation, data integration frameworks and big data (SPC, APC)
– Research in the domains of intelligent production, semantic technologies, big data and integration of heterogenous automated systems
– Since 2017: Responsible executive expert for digital engineering of the internationally renowned automation component supplier Festo. His current interests are about integrated platforms for engineering and operation of mechatronic systems
– Since 2014 one of the main drivers of standardization of Industrie 4.0 in general and of the Asset Administration Shell in particular