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Professor of Digitalisation and AI in Manufacturing and Logistics
As a professor of digitalisation and AI, I teach courses on these subjects within the engineering and industrial engineering degree programmes at the Faculty of Production Engineering and Production Management. The spectrum ranges from an introduction to computer science with Python programming in the first semester to a module on methods and applications of artificial intelligence at Master’s level.
Dean of Studies for the Food Technology (LET) programme:
As Dean of Studies, I am responsible for the launch and administrative management of the new LET degree programme, from liaising with schools and attending trade fairs, through to organising the programme, providing academic guidance, chairing the Programme Committee and the Advisory Board, right through to successful accreditation in accordance with the THU’s quality assurance system.
Member of the Institute for Business Organisation and Logistics (IBL) at the THU
As a member of the IBL Institute, I work with my colleagues to drive forward the development of the THU’s ‘learning factory’, where many principles of modern digitalisation in production and intralogistics, as well as applications of AI, are tested, demonstrated and incorporated into teaching.
Ulrich, Philipp, Baumgärtel, Hartwig. "A Semantic Framework for Operationalizing Semiconductor Supply Chain Visibility and Transparency": INFORMATIK 2026, 22.-25.09.2026, Dresden; LNI (tbd)
Weber, Jakob; Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Völker, Sven. "A flexible Learning Factory based on Production Control by Collaborative Digital Twins". 16th Conference on Learning Factories, Bozen, Italy, May 2026, LNNS2069, 978-3-032-31814-5
Verkhov, Alexander; Lober, Andreas; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Ollinger, Lisa. "Semantic Integration of FMEA Knowledge into Manufacturing Control: A Runtime Exception Handling Framework", 25th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2025), Incheon, Korea, November 2025.
Lober, Andreas; Verkhov, Alexander; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Ollinger, Lisa. "A modular knowledge base concept for dynamic control logic design for adaptive manufacturing", 2025 IEEE 30th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Porto, 2025, DOI:10.1109/ETFA65518.2025.11205704
Lober, Andreas; Weber, Jakob; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Ollinger, Lisa. "Skill Orchestration Agent: A Knowledge-Driven Orchestration Framework for Adaptive Manufacturing Control", 2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2025, pp. 2921-2928, doi: 10.1109/CASE58245.2025.11163862
Lober, Andreas; Lehmann, Joel; Weber, Jakob; Reichwald, Julian; Ollinger, Lisa; Völker, Sven; Baumgärtel, Hartwig. Agentenbasiertes Redesign und Neuinterpretation von OPC UA Designstrategien zur Flexiblen Fähigkeitsbasierten Produktion. at - Automatisierungstechnik 72(3):233-258, 2024
Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Lober, Andreas; Ollinger, Lisa; Völker, Sven. Digital Twin-supported Warehouse 5.0 - A practical path towards smart warehousing. In: Glock, Christoph; Grosse, Eric. Warehousing 5.0: Managing the transition from techno-focused to human-value-centric intralogistics. ISBN: 979-8873704354. Independent. 2024
Lehmann, Joel; Lober, Andreas; Häußermann, Tim; Rache, Alessa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Reichwald, Julian. Domain-agnostic Intelligent Digital Twins: Merging of Application-near Knowledge Representations with the Proactive Internet of Digital Twins (IoDT). Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, Volume P-337 (NFORMATIK 2023 - Designing Futures: Zukünfte gestalten), S. 1725-1738. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Berlin, 2023
Lober, Andreas; Lehmann, Joel; Reichwald, Julian; Ollinger, Lisa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig. Flexible Skill-based Production Systems through novel OPC UA Design Approaches. IFAC-PapersOnLine Vol. 56 Issue 2, S. 3654-3659, Elsevier, 2023
Lehmann, Joel; Lober, Andreas; Häußermann, Tim; Rache, Alessa; Ollinger, Lisa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Reichwald, Julian. The Anatomy of the Internet of Digital Twins: A Symbiosis of Agent and Digital Twin Paradigms Enhancing Resilience (not only) in Manufacturing Environments. In: Grieves, M; Vickers, J.: MDPI Machines, Special Issue on Advances in Digital Twins for Manufacturing, ISSN 2075-1702, 2023
Lober, Andreas; Ollinger, Lisa; Völker, Sven; Baumgärtel, Hartwig. Towards Logistics 4.0: A Skill-based OPC UA Communication between WMS and the PLC of an Automated Storage and Retrieval System. International Conf. on Industrial Logistics, Zagreb, 2023
Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Lober, Andreas; Som, Johannes; Völker, Sven; Ollinger, Lisa. Design of a WMS with OPC UA-based Control of an Automated Rack Storage as Study Project in Computer Science and Proof-of-Concept for Skill-Based Engineering. IALF 13th Conference on Learning Factories. Reutlingen, May 2023
Lober, Andreas; Lehmann, Joel; Häußermann, Tim; Reichwald, Julian; Baumgärtel, Hartwig: Improving the Engineering Process of Control Systems Based on Digital Twin Specifications. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering (IEEE ELECOM), November 2022
Lehmann, Joel; Lober, Andreas; Rache, Alessa; Baumgärtel, Hartwig and Reichwald, Julian. Collaboration of Semantically Enriched Digital Twins based on a Marketplace Approach. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - WINSYS, ISBN 978-989-758-592-0
Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Bischof, Daniel: "Integrated Production Lot Scheduling and Transportation Planning for Vendor-Managed Inventory in Industrial B2B Supply Relationships with Customer-specific Production"; International Conference on Operations Research OR2021, Bern, August/September 2021
Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Moder, Patrick; Ramzy, Nour; Ehm, Hans: "Service-based Semiconductor Manufacturing using the Digital Reference Ontology for Global Service Discovery", IECON 2020 - 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore (online), October 2020, pp. 4533-4540, ISBN 978-1-7281-5414-5 , IEEE, 2020
Lober, Andreas; Baumgärtel, Hartwig: "Semantic service discovery in heterogeneous cyber-physical systems", Proceedings of the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL), Hamburg (online), October 2020
Sipsas, Konstantinos; Zalonis, Andreas; Broechler, Raimund; Baumgärtel, Hartwig; Ehm, Hans: "A platform application for exploiting the Digital Reference Ontology", IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), Tampere (online), June 2020, pp. 557-562, ISBN 978-1-7281-6389-5, IEEE, 2020
Baumgärtel, H., R. Verbeet: "Service and Agent based System Architectures for Industrie 4.0", IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2020, Workshop on Management for Industry 4.0; Budapest (online), May 2020, ISBN 978-1-7281-4973-8
Verbeet, R., H. Baumgärtel: "Implementierung von autonomen Industrie 4.0-Systemen mit BDI-Agenten", in Bauernhansl, T., M. ten Hompel, B. Vogel-Heuser: "Handbuch der Industrie 4.0", 3. Auflage, Springer, 2020
Baumgärtel, H., R. Verbeet: "Service- und Agenten-basierte Ansätze für Industrie 4.0-Systeme"; in Bauernhansl, T., M. ten Hompel, B. Vogel-Heuser: "Handbuch der Industrie 4.0", 3. Auflage, Springer, 2020
Moder, P., H. Ehm, H. Baumgärtel, N. Ramzy: "Semantic Web - Befähiger der Industrie 4.0", in Bauernhansl, T., M. ten Hompel, B. Vogel-Heuser: "Handbuch der Industrie 4.0", 3. Auflage, Springer, 2020
Fay, A., F. Gelhoff, M. Seitz, B. Vogel-Heuser, H. Baumgärtel, C. Diedrich, A. Lüder, T. Schöler, G. Sutschet, R. Verbeet: "Agenten zur Realisierung von Industrie 4.0", VDI-Statusbericht des VDI/VDE Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik Fachausschuss 5.15; VDI; 2019
Baumgärtel, H., H. Ehm, S. Laaouane, J. Gerhardt, A. Kasprzik: "Collaboration in supply chains for development of CPS enabled by semantic web technologies", 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Göteborg, 3627-3638