innogy’s Digital Product Memory project “Twin of Things” - Michael Rüther

Talk 1: innogy’s Digital Product Memory project “Twin of Things” seeks to give every product a story (40 min)

Speaker: Michael Rüther

Abstract: innogy has formed a unique and open IoT and supply chain ecosystem to bring the vision into reality. It provides the trusted layer for the digital twin of any object and enabling industry 4.0. The focus is on developing tools and applications for the IoT space, using a blockchain, based on BigchainDB's decentralized database, as the guarantor of identity, authenticity, and provenance. In partnership with other enterprises innogy gets new ideas to live, in order to demonstrate through concrete examples the capabilities and potentials of blockchain as it relates to physical assets, objects, machines and devices.

Bio:
Dr. Michael Rüther is project manager for the Machine Economy Innovation Lighthouse at innogy SE, and driving the Twin of Things project. He holds a degree in industrial engineer with a PhD in business informatics from University of Paderborn. Prior to supporting innogy SE, Dr. Rüther worked for major energy and mechanical engineering companies.