Michael Schöffler

- IT Service Architecture for Tetra Pak's Data Integration Platform (DIP)

Expertise areas: system & software architecture, packaging machinery (prepress, printing, lamination, coating, slicing, spoolers), Open Source Software Compliance
Methods: Requirements analysis & engineering, architectural fits, Threat & Risk analysis, SCRUM, Software architecture workshops
Technologies: arc42, AMQP, Azure Enterprise Scale, Azure IoT Edge, Azure DevOps, C# .NET Core, Git, EUROMAP, MQTT, OPC UA, RabbitMQ, Sparkplug B, Unified Namespace

- Software architecture coordination at business unit "Assembly Technology"
- Cross-departmental consulting and support for Software-related topics (Open Source Software, IT-Security, product development process, product quality,...)
- Innovation & advanced development of business unit SW portfolio
- Coordination of internal and external SW collaboration activities
- Project lead

Expertise areas: industrial domain, joining and tightening, mobile industrial robots (AGV/AMR), software architecture, system architecture, real-time, transfer systems, Software security, Open Source Software Compliance
Methods: ATAM, requirements engineering, SCRUM, software architecture workshops
Technologies: Angular2+, arc42, Azure DevOps, C/C++, C# .NET Core, ctrlX Automation, Git, Java, Python, TypeScript

- Research in the areas Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Software-defined Factory
- Concept, design and implementation of cyber physical systems to increase ramp up times, flexibility and performance of industrial applications
- Participation in the public-funded projects BaSys 4.0 (BMBF) and ReCaM (EU)
- Committer/Contributor of the open source project Eclipse BaSyx
- Participation in several Industry 4.0 activities at VDMA, VDI and Plattform I4.0, especially on the topic "Asset Administration Shell"

Expertise areas: cyber physical systems, IIoT, manufacturing, process automation, real-time, robotics
Methods: requirements engineering, design of experiments, Google Ventures Design Sprint, project management, research, SCRUM, software architecture workshops, user studies
Technologies: Angular2+, Asset Administration Shell, BPMN, C/C++, C# .NET Core, EtherCAT, Java, oneM2M, OPC UA, Python, SERCOS, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)

- Dissertation "Overall Listening Experience — A New Approach to Subjective Evaluation of Audio"
- Design, implementation and result analysis of listening tests and experiments focusing on auditory perception
- Realization and pushing of novel listening experiment methods, in particular web-based and Virtual Reality-based listening experiments
- Implementations of prediction algorithms for audio quality

Expertise areas: auditory perception, digital signal processing, machine learning, quality perception, research, Virtual Reality, web technologies
Methods: academic writing, hypothesis testing, listening tests, Design of Experiments
Technologies: C/C++, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, JQuery Mobile, JQuery UI, Keras, Matlab, Python, UML