Tilo Heimbold

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Tilo Heimbold (born May 20, 1961 in Wurzen ) is a German engineer and professor for automation , specializing in process control technology and process management . He is one of the pioneers of industrial communication technology in Germany.

Life

Heimbold was the only child of master electrician Klaus Heimbold (* 1940) and his wife Brigitte, b. Heinze (* 1941) born. From 1967 to 1977 Heimbold attended the 19th secondary school in Leipzig and graduated from the 10th grade of the general polytechnic secondary school (POS).

This was followed by a 2-year professional training in the vehicle transmission factory "Joliot Curie" in Leipzig with the skilled worker qualification as an electrician in 1979. This was followed by a 5-year career until 1984 as a company electrician in the maintenance department in this plant.

Heimbold obtained his university entrance qualification in a preliminary course from 1981 to 1982 at the Technical University of Leipzig after a total of 12 years of schooling. As part of the conscription, he then completed an 18-month military service until 1984, where he also worked as an electrician.

Heimbold began his university studies in 1984 at the Technical University of Leipzig , section "Automation systems" (Director: Werner Richter ). He chose the subject "Technical Cybernetics and Automation Technology". He obtained his degree in engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) In 1988 with a diploma thesis in the field of industrial communication : “Commissioning and testing of the laboratory model for a fault-tolerant fieldbus ring”.

In the course of the German reunification process , an electrical engineering department was formed from its previous automation systems section in 1991 , to which an Institute for Automation Systems (IfAS) also belonged with Werner Kriesel as director (1990–1992). This ensured that the laboratory equipment was modernized thanks to foundation funds raised ( Gunther Schroff Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, cooperation with Steinbeis Foundation, etc.) and through research funding and research cooperation with companies such as Siemens , Festo and others. a. Thus, a solid basis for a contemporary continuation of the preliminary research on industrial communication was created very quickly.

Heimbold benefited from this. After completing his diploma thesis in 1988, he began an in-depth research course that could be continued after German reunification in 1990 at the newly founded Institute for Automation Systems (IfAS) at the TH Leipzig. This research study concluded Heimbold 1992 with the promotion for Doktoringenieur (Dr.-Ing.) Successfully. The dissertation was also developed in the field of industrial communication: "Hierarchical fieldbus network for process-related information transfer in automation systems". It provided a substantial basis for the continuation of this research profile in the all-German context represents, not least by the developed Heimbold prototype for a sensor-actuator bus system called "Binary feeder (Bizu)" that at Machine Tool Laboratory WZL first of Heimbold were brought to practical use together with local scientific staff (Chair Tilo Pfeifer ).

As a result of the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany, the new state of Saxony had to finance a total of 8 technical universities, which is why five technical universities were closed and less costly technical universities were re-established. The TH Leipzig was closed between 1992 and 1996, after the University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) was re-established as a legally independent institution in 1992 (founding rector: Klaus Steinbock ). Kriesel was appointed to the neighboring University of Merseburg in 1995 (Rector: Johanna Wanka , later Federal Minister for Education and Research ), and in cooperation with the HTWK Leipzig, teaching and research group Heimbold, he developed the new subject "Industrial Communication Technology" nationwide as Represent an independent subject and for this purpose special textbooks created in several editions, in which Heimbold is particularly involved.

Employment as an automation and communication engineer

From 1992 to 1998 Heimbold worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Leipzig (THL) and at the University of Technology, Economy and Culture (HTWK) in Leipzig, which included in particular: Research and development work in the context of third-party funded projects national and international level as well as the associated supervision of internships, research documents and theses.

At the time of the opening of the border in 1989, the Kriesel Science Department was already able to show concrete research results for intelligent functional units that can be directly bus-coupled, in particular for a new type of communication system for bus linking of controls with associated sensors and actuators. Heimbold had also contributed to this with his diploma thesis and especially with his dissertation. This research found particular interest at Festo and was very much supported by the President of Festo-USA Horst Saalbach . The Federal Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT) then started a joint project on this topic in which 11 companies including Festo together with the TH Leipzig (IfAS, Werner Kriesel) and the University of Karlsruhe (FZI, Klaus Bender) in 1991 until 1994 developed prototypes of corresponding solutions. The result is a world first, an industrial communication system for the highly effective linking of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) with machines and systems under the name "ASI" or AS-Interface , which has been on the market since 1994.

This AS-Interface system is now - thanks in part to several research and development efforts by Heimbold - the world market leader in industrial communication on the sensor-actuator level according to the global IEC 62026 and European standard with almost 100 manufacturers in 13 countries. In the 25 years since their market launch in 1994, a total of around 40 million system chips for bus nodes had been produced by 2019 and more than 150 million sensors and actuators were networked with them. This corresponds to over 150,000 automated systems of medium size, i.e. 6,000 systems per year, thus an average of 120 systems per calendar week. Heimbold promoted the market launch of this unconventional technology not only with his research and development work, but also through his participation in nationwide further training measures for this new type of industrial communication as well as through special book publications.

Since the German reunification, Heimbold has supported Kriesel's work as chairman of the nationwide technical committee "Communication Technology in Distributed Automation Systems" in the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA) Düsseldorf / Frankfurt am Main (former federal chairman: Martin Polke ). Kriesel also became division manager and from 1994 to 2000 a board member and from 1997 deputy federal chairman of the GMA, and through this committee work, together with joint book publications, the new subject could be given nationwide attention, in which Heimbold played a considerable part.

In 1998, Heimbold switched to a position as a research assistant at the Research and Transfer Center Leipzig (FTZ), which was founded in 1996 by Siegfried Altmann . Heimbold worked here in the “Automation Systems” working group. This activity primarily comprised research and development tasks in international third-party funded projects.

Heimbold has been a project coordinator at FTZ Leipzig since 2001 , where he was responsible for a wide range of tasks: organization of business operations; the acquisition of research and development contracts as well as third-party funded projects; Marketing and maintaining contacts with business, municipalities, chambers and associations; the supervision of internships, research documents and diploma theses for research and development tasks in third-party funded projects.

As a research assistant, Heimbold has mainly dealt with issues relating to the development of components and tools for intelligent automation and communication systems. A large part of the work within the project "Actuator-Sensor-Interface" ( AS-Interface ), in which he gained extensive knowledge and experience in the development of industrial communication systems. Within this joint project he worked in the “Slave” working group. One result of his work was the development of the "AS-Interface ServiceBook", a diagnostic tool for commissioning, maintenance and training. He continued the further development of this device seamlessly, and the device is now used worldwide.

He was able to gain further experience with data transmission systems and handling complex automation systems in the international projects “Systems Engineering for Network Debugging, Integration and Test” (SENDIT) and “Programmable Remote Analysis Coupling Targets in Control at Low Level” (PRACTICAL). This resulted u. a. powerful bus monitors for a communication system based on the CAN bus system . The processing and implementation of these projects was carried out in a practical manner at the industrial partners in Italy and Great Britain, and the results were used in various applications. With these projects, he was able to expand his experience with EU-funded and internationally active research projects.

At the same time, Heimbold was involved in various reports for industrial properties. Participation in an expert opinion on sophisticated automation technology in Verbundnetz Gas AG (VNG head office) in Leipzig is representative of this.

During his work, Heimbold has developed various microcontroller applications and FPGA implementations. He gained experience in the programming languages ​​C and assembler as well as in the handling of programmable logic and the handling of the associated development tools, hardware and software components. The use of visualization systems took place in connection with the developed diagnostic tools for human-machine communication. Working on the actuator-sensor interface and its use in applications and demonstration objects expanded his knowledge and experience in the field of PLC programming.

Furthermore, he acquired a sound level of knowledge in the field of industrial data communication and the related sub-areas. Industrial data communication is a main component of process control technology, which is one of his teaching areas.

From 1990 to 2018 Heimbold was with the nursing manager Jeannette Heimbold , born Radew (* 1970) married, the daughter Gina Heimbold (* 1991) emerged from the marriage , who trained as a health care professional.

Professor for process control technology and process management

Leipzig, Wächterstraße 13, building of the former TH Leipzig for the two sections of automation systems and electrical energy systems, today Wiener-Bau : Faculty building of the HTWK Leipzig

In 2004 Heimbold was appointed professor for process control technology and process management at the HTWK Leipzig, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (Dean: Detlev Roseburg ). This position corresponds to a high degree to the knowledge he has acquired over many years and his wealth of experience. Heimbold has significantly expanded the training of engineers with bachelor's and master's degrees in the specialization for automation systems, which is rare in German-speaking countries, through his courses and underlined the content in a modern textbook.

The cooperation between Heimbold and his fellow professors has resulted in extensive internship facilities for automation technology at the HTWK Leipzig at the level of industry-related automated systems. He has thus contributed to the development and profiling of the automation technology course in the electrical engineering course. At the same time he is a member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Engineering. He works in the Research and Transfer Center (FTZ) Leipzig eV as Scientific Director actively involved in technology transfer.

The third-party research since the reunification in the research group Kriesel / Heimbold comprises over 30 joint projects with well-known industrial research partners, including a. Siemens, Mercedes , Festo, Pepperl + Fuchs and more than 50 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as companies from Great Britain and Italy. The research focuses mainly in the field of industrial communication on the process-level sensor - actuator plane (so-called field bus systems), including a tangent problem areas such as diagnostic tools, test tools for certification functions for conformity assessment to electronic to novel devices such as "ideal inductors as Faltflexspulen".

With the joint project “Interdisciplinary System Infrastructures for Device Technology (ISIS)”, the basis for long-term further developments in the field of sensor-actuator communication was developed. A leap in innovation aimed for in the high-tech sector could only be developed across disciplines. Therefore, research institutions for automation (FTZ Leipzig, overall coordination: initially Kriesel, then Heimbold), communications (University of Stuttgart, Chair Joachim Speidel ) and circuit integration (University of Rostock, Chair Helmut Beikirch ) worked together with 5 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) including ASIC manufacturers and 9 large companies together. The aim of the project was to look for possibilities for a cardinal generation change. A major leap in innovation with increased transmission capacity requires a multiple change in principle. The development of new digital communication methods for specific topologies of automation could only be achieved together with a technology change for the system-defining ASIC circuit.

In the joint project "Network integration of test and diagnostic tools for innovative multi-point communication in industrial automation (TOOLNet)", specific tools for future systems of industrial communication were examined. For this purpose, a strategic partnership between business and science was implemented under overall coordination by Heimbold, by organizing a multidisciplinary collaboration between 3 research institutions with a total of 11 companies (SMEs and large companies). An economic exploitation of the previous ISIS project is only possible with the availability of user-specific test and diagnostic tools, on the one hand for the component and device developers and on the other hand for the system operator for commissioning, continuous operation and system maintenance. The objective of the TOOLNet project was therefore to promote industrial usability through the development of specific test and diagnostic tools in such a way that the German world market leadership in this area is maintained and sustainably expanded. In the “TOOLNet” project, coordinated by Heimbold, application-oriented solution proposals for new types of tools were developed, thereby generating innovations in the multidisciplinary research network.

Heimbold, as a pioneer of industrial communication, does not regard this subject, in which Germany is a world leader with its companies and research potential, as technologically complete. Therefore, he continues to work on the scientific preliminary for future solutions in close contact with industry and research partners.

Heimbold has given numerous lectures on the research results of his team at trade fairs and scientific events, some of which he himself suggested and helped to organize. His scientific publications also reflect his teamwork and comprise over 50 works, 8 of which are books, some with up to 8 editions.

In addition to Heimbold, other professors have emerged from the former Institute for Automation Systems (IfAS) and the academic environment of the Kriesel Chair : Klaus Steinbock ( HTWK , founding rector), Klaus Fiedler ( Leuphana University Lüneburg ), Klaus Kabitzsch ( Technical University Dresden ), Peter Helm ( University of Merseburg ) and Alexander Chorchordin ( Donetsk , Ukraine).

Memberships (selection)

  • Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Engineering at the HTWK Leipzig
  • Temporary member of the international program committee PDES (Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems), IFAC workshop (annual congress)
  • Member of the AS-International Association, Frankfurt am Main (AS-Interface user organization)
  • Member of EduNet (International Education Network)
  • Reviewer from AiF FTK GmbH (FH federal and state programs for research funding)
  • Participation in the standardization committee DKE UK 921, Frankfurt am Main

Publications (selection)

  • with W. Kriesel : Network hierarchies at CIM. In: G. Schnell (Hrsg.): Bus systems in automation technology. Vieweg, Wiesbaden / Braunschweig 1994, 7th edition 2009.
  • Collaboration in: W. Kriesel, OW Madelung (ed.): ASI - The Actuator-Sensor-Interface for Automation (with CD-ROM). Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-446-17825-2 , 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-446-21064-4 .
  • Collaboration in: WR Kriesel, OW Madelung (ed.): ASI - The Actuator-Sensor-Interface for Automation (with CD-ROM). Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-446-18265-9 , 2nd edition. 1999, ISBN 3-446-21065-2 .
  • with W. Kriesel and D. Telschow: Bus technologies for automation - networking, selection and application of communication systems (with CD-ROM). Hüthig Verlag, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-7785-2616-2 , 2nd edition 2000, ISBN 3-7785-2778-9 (with the collaboration of Rüdiger Eikmeier, Dirk Lippik, Ulrich Wagner and Alfred Wölfel).
  • with W. Kriesel and Th. Minner: Diagnosis of field buses in the system network. In: D. Dietrich, P. Neumann , H. Schweinzer: Fieldbus Technology. Springer-Verlag, Vienna / New York 1999.
  • with F. Holzer, D. Lippik, U. Roland, Kopinke, F.-D. and J. Schenk: Modular System Concept for Soil Heating Using Radio-Frequency Energy. In: IAENG TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES. Volume 4, Hong Kong 2010, ISBN 978-0-7354-0794-7 .
  • Network hierarchies at CIM. In: G. Schnell, B. Wiedemann (Ed.): Bus systems in automation technology. 8th edition. Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden, Braunschweig 2012.
  • Introduction to automation technology. Automation systems, components, project planning and planning. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig in Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-42675-7 .

literature

  • Heinz Töpfer , Werner Kriesel : Functional units of automation technology - electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic. Verlag Technik, Berlin and VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977, 5th edition 1988, section 5.2 Digital transmission, pp. 325–341, ISBN 3-341-00290-1 .
  • Tilo Heimbold: Hierarchical fieldbus network for process-related information transfer in automation systems. Dissertation, Technical University Leipzig 1992.
  • Werner Kriesel, Tilo Heimbold, D. Telschow: Bus technologies for automation - networking, selection and application of communication systems (with CD-ROM). Hüthig Verlag, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-7785-2616-2 , 2nd edition 2000, list of authors, pp. 213-214, ISBN 3-7785-2778-9 .
  • Karl Heinz Fasol ; Rudolf Lauber; Franz Mesch; Heinrich Rake ; Manfred Thoma ; Heinz Töpfer : Great Names and the Early Days of Control in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 54, No. 9, 2006, pp. 462-472.
  • Tilo Heimbold: Introduction to automation technology. Automation systems, components, project planning and planning. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig in Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, 4th US, ISBN 978-3-446-42675-7 .
  • Werner Kriesel: Future models for computer science, automation and communication. In: Frank Fuchs-Kittowski ; Werner Kriesel (Ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research 2016, pp. 415-430, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 .
  • Research and Transfer Center (FTZ) Leipzig eV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Werner, D. Herrmann: msr introduces: Technical University of Leipzig - Automation Systems Section. In: measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 26, No. 9, 1983, pp. 527-531.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Weller : Automation technology through the ages - development history of a fascinating subject. Verlag epubli GmbH Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-5487-7 and as an e-book.
  3. ↑ Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology; Section 6.3.4 Field buses with ring structures. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, pp. 154–156, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  4. ↑ Tilo Heimbold: Hierarchical fieldbus network for process-related information transfer in automation systems. Dissertation, Technical University Leipzig 1992.
  5. ↑ Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. Section 6.3.5 Sensor-actuator buses, pp. 156–159. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Zander : Control of event-discrete processes. Novel methods for describing processes and designing control algorithms. Springer Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01381-3 , e-book ISBN 978-3-658-01382-0 .
  7. ↑ Rolf Becker: Automation is easy - with AS-Interface. AS-International Association, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  8. ↑ Peter Neumann u. a .: PLC standard: IEC 1131: Programming in distributed automation systems. Oldenbourg-Industrieverlag, Munich; Vienna 1995, 2nd edition 1998, 3rd edition. 2000, ISBN 978-3-8356-7005-1 .
  9. ↑ Martin Polke : Process control technology. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, Vienna, 1992, 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 3-486-22549-9 .
  10. ↑ Lothar Starke: From hydraulic regulators to process control systems. The success story of the Askania works in Berlin and the device and controller works in Teltow. 140 years of industrial history, tradition and future. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1715-3 .
  11. ^ Hans-Joachim Zander , Georg Bretthauer : Prof. Heinz Töpfer on his 80th birthday. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 58, No. 7, 2010, pp. 413-415.
personal data
SURNAME Heimbold, Tilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and professor for automation and communication
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzen , Germany