Michael Weyrich

Michael Weyrich (2016)

Michael Weyrich (* 1967 in Saarbrücken ) is a German engineering scientist and university professor. Since April 1, 2013, he has been head of the Institute for Automation Technology and Software Systems (IAS) at the University of Stuttgart . Before that he was head of the chair for factory automation at the University of Siegen and scientific director at the Automotive Center Südwestfalen for four years .

Career

Michael Weyrich studied electrical engineering and did his doctorate in mechanical engineering. Before his appointment as a university professor, he worked in industry for ten years and spent several years abroad.

Born in Saarbrücken, he initially studied at the Saarland University of Applied Sciences (formerly: Saarland University of Applied Sciences) with a focus on automation technology. This was followed by a supplementary course in electrical engineering with a focus on control and regulation technology at the Ruhr University Bochum and a semester abroad in London at the Industrial Control Center of the University of Westminster .

He then worked as a research assistant and later as an R&D team manager for virtual manufacturing / automation technology at the European Center for Mechatronics at Paul Drews at RWTH Aachen University. At the beginning of 1999 the doctorate to Dr.-Ing. with his work "Multimedia tools for 3D planning in mechanical and plant engineering". After completing his doctorate, he switched to industry at Daimler AG (formerly DaimlerChrysler) in Stuttgart and initially took on project management in the field of "NC process connection for flexible manufacturing". In the Information Technology Management Passenger Cars department, he was then head of the “CAx Process Chain - Production” department.

In 2004 he became head of the IT for Engineering department for Mercedes Research and Technology in Bangalore (India), which was part of Mercedes Group Research (software technology department). During this three-year activity, he was entrusted with the development and operational management of the offshore competence field.

Before he was appointed to the University of Siegen, he was head of a staff department in the industrial sector / motion control at Siemens AG in Erlangen for two years. He was responsible for setting up a new business area based on motion control / PLM software and corresponding automation services. In August 2012, he was appointed to succeed University Professor Peter Göhner at the Institute for Automation Technology and Software Systems (IAS) at the University of Stuttgart . Since April 2013 he has been head of the institute together with Professor Göhner as part of an early appointment.

In recognition of his scientific achievements, Michael Weyrich was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the Donetsk National Technical University in September 2018.

Michael Weyrich is married and has two children.

Work areas

As part of his research and teaching activities, he deals with the following topics:

• Composition of modular automation systems, in particular knowledge-based engineering and methods for the conception of "smart systems" for automation, design of adaptive and learning systems as well as process IT
• Evaluation and testing of decentralized automation systems
• Value architectures and benefit analysis of automation systems and components

Fonts (selection)

• A. Zeller, M. Weyrich: Test Case Selection for Networked Production Systems . 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2015
• J. Schmidt, M. Weyrich: Design of a software architecture for decentralized microcontroller-based control systems . Automation 2015, Baden-Baden, July 2015
• M. Weyrich, P. Klein, F. Steden: Reuse of Modules for Mechatronic Modeling and Evaluation of Manufacturing Systems in the Conceptual Design and Basic Engineering Phase . 19th IFAC World Congress to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, August 2014
• M. Weyrich, J. Schmidt, C. Ebert: Machine-to-machine communication . IEEE Software Magazine, July / August 2014
• M. Weyrich, I. Wior, A. Fay: Flexibilization of automation systems - systematization of the flexibility requirements of Industry 4.0 . wt workshop technology online, vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 106–111, Düsseldorf, Springer-VDI-Verlag, 2014
• M. Weyrich, C. Diedrich, A. Fay et al .: Industry 4.0 using the example of a network system - aspects of modeling and decentralized architecture . atp edition - Automation Technology Practice, vol. 56, no. 7-8, pp. 52-61, 2014
• P. Göhner, M. Weyrich: Agent-Based Concepts for Manufacturing Automation . in: Multiagent System Technologies, 12th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2014, Stuttgart, September 2014
• M. Weyrich, F. Steden: Methodically identify simulation modules . atp edition - Automation Technology Practice, 2013

Participation in committees and conferences

• Accredited reviewer at the DFG, European Commission, DAAD, AiF, project sponsor of the BMWi and BMBF
• Member of the advisory board of the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA) for the 2016 to 2018 election period
• Chairman of the VDI / VDE Technical Committee 7.25 "Testing networked systems for Industry 4.0"
• Chair of the Subcommittee on Internet and Information Technologies in Factory Automation of the IEEE-IES TC on Factory Automation
• Member of the IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents
• Advisory board of the trade journal Automatisierungstechnische Praxis (atp edition)
• Member of the program committee in conferences and scientific journals
  • IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory, Track Chair
  • Automation, VDI knowledge forum "Automation"
  • VDI Knowledge Forum "Industry 4.0"
  • Mates - Multiagent System Technologies, in cooperation with the SIG on Distributed Artificial Intelligence of the German Computer Society GI
  • As well as other international conferences and magazines
• Founding representative of Faculty 5 for Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• Elected to the board of the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA) in April 2016

Web links

• Michael Weyrich on the website of the University of Stuttgart
• List of publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ News about the honorary doctorate website of the IAS of the University of Stuttgart. Retrieved September 13, 2018.